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Doctor Dorsey * mentions the shinny ball and double ball being 
used by a boy and a girl to convey them miraculously through space. 
Wienrra. Oklahoma. 
Implements (figure 866) for a woman’s ball game, in the possession 
of Mr James Mooney, consist of two balls of buckskin, each about 2 
inches in the greatest diameter and having white glass beads at the 
median seam fastened together with a thong, 11 inches in length, 
with a fringe of cut buckskin attached to each; and a stick, consist- 
ing of a bent sapling, 23 inches in length. The balls and stick are 
painted yellow. These implements are models, made and presented 
to Mr Mooney by Wichita Indians at the Indian Congress at Omaha 
in 1898. 
Fig. 866. Double ball and stick; length of stick, 23 inches; Wichita Indians, Oklahoma; in the 
possession of Mr James Mooney. 
In the Wichita tales the double ball is frequently referred to as a 
magical implement used in traveling. Bright-Shining-Woman (the 
Moon) gave it to women among the things they should use to enjoy 
themselves. She showed them how to play the game, and told them 
that the ball was for their use in traveling.” 
Tn the story of “* The Seven Brothers and the Woman ”¢ the woman 
made her escape, aided by the double ball. When she tossed the 
double ball she went with it up in the air. Again, in “ The Story of 
Child-of-a-Dog ” 4 the woman uses the double ball in escaping from 
her pursuers. The same incident occurs in the stories of * Young- 
Boy-Chief and his Sister” ¢ and “ Trouble Among the Chief’s Chil- 
dren.” / In the story of “ Young-Boy-Chief Who Married a Buf- 
falo ”’ two women are described as playing the double-ball game with 
the other women. 
COPEHAN STOCK 
Wintun. California. 
Mr Alexander MacFarland Davis” says: 
I am indebted to Mr Albert S. Gatschet, of Washington, for information con- 
cerning a game played among the Winttin Indians, called Ka-ra, which is played 
by throwing up two disks of wood connected by a string about 3 inches long. 
They are to be caught when they come down. Mr Gatschet refers to Mr Jere- 
miah Curtin, Bureau of Ethnology, for authority. 
«Traditions of the Skidi Pawnee, p. 25, New York, 1904. 
>The Mythology of the Wichita, p. 28, Washington, 1904. 
¢ Ibid., p. 65. 
4 ]bid., p. 146. 
¢ Ibid., p. 220. 
f Ibid., p. 237. 
9 Ibid., p. 200. 
»A Few Additional Notes concerning Indian Games. Bulletin of the Essex Institute, 
vy. 18, p. 184, Salem, 1887. 
