cuLin] DOUBLE BALL: SAUK AND FOXES 655 
SAUK AND FOXEs. Iowa. (Cat. no. 5345, American Museum of Natu- 
ral History. ) 
Double ball (figure 861), covered with buckskin and filled with sand, 
the ends ovate; length, 15 inches. 
Cat. no. 33,;. Two sticks or clubs (figure 862), slightly knobbed at 
the end opposite the handle, 36 and 39 inches in length, one 
blackened and the other white. 
Fig. 862. 
Fic. 861. Double ball; length, 15 inches; Sauk and Fox Indians, Iowa; cat. no. »§/;. American 
Museum of Natural History. 
FG. 862. Sticks for double ball; lengths, 36 and 39 inches; Sauk and Fox Indians, Iowa: cat. no. 
23%5, American Museum of Natural History : 
The foregoing specimens were collected by Dr William Jones. who 
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describes them as used in the woman’s ball game: 
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The game is played only by women. They have two bases, for which almost 
anything will answer. They like to get two trees some distance apart—say a 
quarter of a mile—and use outstretched limbs for the goals. The ball must be 
thrown on the goal. Each goal made counts a point. The color of the sticks 
corresponds with the division among the people into Whites and Blacks, each 
side using implements of its appropriate color. 
The game is called ko-nen-no-hi-wag; the ball, ko-na-no-ha-ki, kidneys; the 
ball sticks, ot-chi. 
