CULIN] DOUBLE BALL: PAWNEE 657 
his goal by catching the buckskin loop on the end of his stick. If he succeeds. 
he runs after the balls and tries to strike them again before he is overtaken. 
If he is overtaken, the next pair of players release one another and start after 
the balls while the first couple wrestle. The third pair take up the game if the 
second couple become involved in a wrestling match. The side which succeeds 
in getting the balls to the stake wins. As the game is described as played in 
former times, it probably rivaled modern football in roughness. 
Dr Goddard ¢ relates the story of a miraculous boy, Dug-from-the- 
ground, whose grandmother made him a shinny stick of blue-stone, 
with other things of the same material, for his journey to the home 
of the immortals, at the edge of the world, toward the east. Arriv- 
ing. he met ten brothers who greeted him as brother-in-law. He 
played shinny with them, Wildcat, Fox, Earthquake, and Thunder, 
and won with the aid of the stick and balls his grandmother had 
made. He returned home to his grandmother and found he had 
been away as many years as it seemed to him he had spent nights. 
Fic. 865. Double ball and stick; length of ball, 25 inches; length of stick, 32} inches; Pawnee 
Indians, Oklahoma; cat. no. 59405, Field Columbian Museum. 
CADDOAN STOCK 
Artkara. Fort Berthold, North Dakota. 
Susan W. Hall? writes: 
The women, in their modern Christian sewing meeting, are reviving a pretty 
and interesting old game of theirs, played with small deerskin-covered balls 
attached by a couple of inches of deerskin string and tossed by a long stick 
from one side to another. 
Pawnee. Oklahoma. (Cat. no. 59405, Field Columbian Museum.) 
Two buckskin balls (figure 865), each composed of two small balls 
conjoined, which have bands of white and blue beads around the 
middle, with buckskin fringe at the ends, and a string uniting 
them: total length, 25 inches; accompanied by a stick, painted 
yellow, 324 inches in length. Another specimen in the same col- 
lection (cat. no. 59408) has single balls, flattened, each about 2 
inches in diameter, painted yellow. Collected in 1901 by Dr 
George A. Dorsey. 
*Hupa Texts, p. 146, Berkeley, 1904. 
>A letter to Mr Theodore J. Eastman, dated August 11, 1900. In a subsequent letter 
to the writer she says that the balls were about the size of a lemon and were thrown witha 
stick and kept going from opposing sides. 
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