cuLIN] DOUBLE BALL: PAPAGO 
LUTUAMIAN STOCK 
Kiamatu. Upper Klamath lake, Oregon. 
Columbian Museum. ) 
(Cat. no. 61538, Field 
Willow poles (figure 867), skuekush, 524 inches in length, decorated 
and marked throughout the greater part of their length with two 
burnt spiral lines, which run in opposite 
directions; and two wooden billets, 6 inches 
long and 1 inch in diameter, fastened to 
each other by means of a short cord, 10 
inches in length, which passes through the 
center of each billet. 
Collected in 1900 by Dr George A. Dorsey,? 
who describes them as used in the game of 
tchimmaash, generally played by women. Two 
goals, anku, are marked, about a hundred yards 
apart. From two to ten generally play. 
Dr A. S. Gatschet” says: 
The tchimma-ash game is played almost exclusively 
by females. The tchimmé-ash is a string about 2-3 
feet long, to the ends of which sticks or pieces of cloth 
are tied; it is taken up and thrown forward by two 
flexible willow rods (shuékfsh wa’hikish) to play- 
mates, who divide themselves into two parties. Be- 
fore the commencement of the game two limits (yfiash) 
are meted out on the ground, which serve as bases. 
Both of them are located between the lines of starting 
(shalyuétgish ). 
MOQUELUMNAN STOCK 
Wasama. Chowchilly river, Madera county, 
California. 
Dr J. W. Hudson describes the following 
game under the name of tawilu: 
Two or more women contest with 3-foot sticks for 
a braided buckskin strip 10 inches long. The goals are 
150 feet apart. 
PIMAN STOCK 
Mission of San Xavier del Bae, Pima 
county, Arizona. (Field Columbian 
Museum.) 
Cat. no. 63543. 
Papaco. 
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Fia. 867. Double billetsand 
sticks; length of sticks, 52 
inches; length of billets, 
6 inches; Klamath In- 
dians, Oregon; cat. no. 
61538, Field Columbian 
Museum. 
Double ball (figure 868), consisting of two balls 
made of plaited hide, 14 inches in diameter, united by a plaited 
y. 3, p. 19, 1901. 
*’The Klamath Indians of Southwestern Oregon. 
Ethnology, vy. 2, pt. 1, p. 81, Washington, 1890. 
Contributions to North American 
