660 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS  [2ru. any. 24 
thong, total length, 5 inches; and slender stick, made of sapling, 
tapering to a point, 44 inches in length. 
Cat. no. 63506. Double ball (figure 869), consisting of two oblong 
wooden balls, 13 inches in longest diameter, tied together by a 
strip of cotton cloth. 
Cat. no, 63507. Sticks used with the above, tapering to a point, one 
6 feet 10} inches, and the other 4 feet 4 inches in length. 
These were collected by Mr S. C. Simms, who describes them as 
implements used in the woman’s game of toakata. The Spanish call 
it “ hobbles.” 
Fig. 869. 
Fia. 868. Double ball and stick; length of balls, 5 inches; length of stick, 44 inches; Papago 
Indians, Arizona; cat. no. 63543, Field Columbian Museum. 
Fia. 869. Double billets and stick; length of billets, 14 inches; length of stick, 52 inches; Papago 
Indians, Arizona; cat. no. 63506, 63507, Field Columbian Museum. 
F1a. 870. Double ball; length, 9} inches; Pima Indians, Arizona; cat. no. 63499, Field Columbian 
Museum. 
Pima. Salt River reservation, Maricopa county, Arizona. (Cat. no. 
63499, Field Columbian Museum.) 
Dumb-bell shaped ball (figure 870) of black painted leather; length 
(extended), 94 inches. Collected by Mr §. C. Simms, who 
describes it as used in a woman’s game. 
Trerenuan. Talayote, near Nabogame, Chihuahua, Mexico. (Cat. 
no. ,°;, American Museum of Natural History. ) 
Two wooden billets (figure 871), 24 inches in length, tied together 
with a cord of twisted white wood. 
These were collected by Dr Carl Lumholtz in 1894, who gave the 
name of the billets as dadayar and that of the sticks as tshibukar. 
In case the cord of the billets should break it is mended, and the 
dadayar is buried under some loose earth in order to be thrown 
again. Bets are made by the bystanders. 
PUJUNAN STOCK 
Kaont. Cosumnes river, 12 miles south of Placerville, California. 
Dr J. W. Hudson describes a game played with a buckskin strap, 
24 inches long and knotted at the ends, under the name of tikili. 
