cuLiy] DOUBLE BALL: ACHOMAWI 661 
This is contested for by four women armed with clubs 30 inches long. The 
goals, which are usually trees, are 100 feet apart. 
In Todds valley a dumb-bell shaped plaything consisting of pine cones thrust 
upon each end of a 12-inch stick [figure 872] is called hép’-pép-do’-kai. It is 
played by women, three to a side, with goal lines 200 feet apart. Kicking or 
foot-casting only is allowed. 
Nisainam. California. 
Mr Stephen Powers? says: 
The ti’-kel is almost the only really robust and athletic game they use, and is 
played by a large company of men and boys. The piece is made of rawhide, 
or nowadays of strong cloth, and is 
shaped like a small dumb-bell. It is 
laid in the center of a wide, level 
space of ground, in a furrow hollowed 
out a few inches in depth. Two 
parallel lines are drawn equidistant 
from it, a few paces apart, and along 
these lines the opposing parties, equal 
in strength, range themselves. Each 
player is equipped with a_ slight, 
strong staff, from 4 to 6 feet long. 
The two champions of the parties take 
their stations on opposite sides of the 
piece, which is then thrown into the 
F1g.87l. Double billets; length, 2} inches; Tepe- 
huan Indians, Chihuahua, Mexico; cat. no. Ys, 
American Museum of Natural History. 
air, caught on the staff of one or 
the other, and hurled by him in the direction of his antagonist’s goal. With 
this send-off there ensues a wild chase and a hustle, pellmell, higgledy- 
piggledy, each party striving to bowl the piece over the other’s goal. These 
goals are several hundred yards apart, affording room for a good deal of 
lively work; and the players often race up and down the champaign, with 
varying fortunes, until they are dead blown and perspiring like top-sawyers. 
Fig. 873. 
Fic. 872. Implement for tossing game; Kaoni Indians, California; from sketch by Dr J. W. 
Hudson. 
Fig. 873. Stick for double ball; length, 62 inches; Achomawi Indians, Hat creek, California; 
cat. no. z§%;, American Museum of Natural History. 
SHASTAN STOCK 
ACHOMAWI. Hat creek, California. 
seum of Natural History.) 
Stick (figure 873), a peeled sapling, 62 inches in length. 
Collected in 1903 by Dr Roland B. Dixon, who describes it as used . 
in a woman’s ball game, luswalli. The tied billets, which doubtless 
accompanied it, are missing. 
Contributions to American Ethnology, v. 3, p. 333, Washington, 
(Cat. no. z$3,, American Mu- 
® Tribes of California. 
1877. 
