662 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS  [sTH. Ann. 24 
SHasta, Hamburg bar, California. (Cat. no. 3$$;, American Mu- 
seum of Natural History.) 
Two wooden billets (figure 874), about 5 inches in length, tied to- 
gether with a buckskin thong; accompanied with a stick, a peeled 
sapling, about 40 inches in length. Collected in 1902 by Dr 
Roland B. Dixon, who describes these specimens as implements 
for a woman’s game. 
Fia. 874. Double billets and stick; length of ‘billets, about 5 inches; length of stick, about 40 
inches; Shasta Indians, California; cat. no. ;33;, American Museum of Natural History. 
SHOSHONEAN STOCK 
Parure. Pyramid lake, Nevada. (Cat. no. 37157, Free Museum of 
Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania.) 
Ball and stick (figure 875) for woman’s game; the ball, of buck- 
skin, nearly cylindrical, and expanding at the ends; length, 114 
inches; the stick a forked, peeled sapling, 40 inches in length. 
Collected by the writer, through Miss Marian Taylor, in 1900. 
FG. 875. Double ball and stick; length of ball, 11} inches; length of stick, 40 inches; Paiute 
Indians, Pyramid lake, Nevada; cat. no. 37157, Free Museum of Science and Art, University 
of Pennsylvania. . 
—— Pyramid lake, Nevada. (Cat. no. 19053, United States Na- 
tional Museum.) 
Leather ball for woman’s game, 12 inches in length, identical with 
the preceding. 
Collected by Mr Stephen Powers, and described by him in his eata- 
logue under the name of tapecool: 
It is laid on the ground midway between two base lines, and the contending 
parties of women, armed with long sticks, seek to propel it beyond each other’s 
base line. 
Swosuont. Wind River reservation, Wyoming. (Cat. no. 36875, 
36876, Free Museum of Science and Art, University of 
Pennsylvania. ) 
Ball (figure 876), nazeto, and stick, hope, for a woman’s ball game. 
The ball, a buckskin bag, shaped like a dumb-bell, 10 inches in 
