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CULIN] DOUBLE BALL: OMAHA 663 
length; the stick, a peeled willow branch (figure 877), 464 
inches in length, with a projecting twig near the end. Collected 
by the writer in 1900. 
Uinta Ute. White Rocks, Utah. (Cat. no. ;$%;, American Mu- 
seum of Natural History.) 
Buckskin ball, nearly rectangular, narrowing toward the middle, 
with padded ends, with design in blue beads on one side, as shown 
in figure 878; length, 7 inches. Collected by Dr A. L. Kroeber 
in 1900. 
FG. 876. Double ball; length, 10 inches; Shoshoni Indians, Wyoming; cat. no. 36876, Free Mu- 
seum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
Fic. 877. Stick for double ball; length, 46; inches; Shoshoni Indians, Wyoming; cat. no. 36875, 
Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
Fia. 878. Double ball; length, 7 inches; Uinta Ute Indians, Utah; cat. no. :$g;, American Mu- 
seum of Natural History. 
SIOUAN STOCK 
Dakota (Santee). Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. 
Catlin says: 
In the ball-play of the women [figure 879], they have two balls attached to 
the ends of a string about a foot and a half long; and each woman has a short 
stick in each hand, on which she catches the string with the two balls, and 
throws them, endeavoring to force them over the goal of her own party. The 
men are more than half drunk, when they feel liberal enough to indulge the 
women in such an amusement, and take infinite pleasure in rolling about 
on the ground and laughing to excess, while the women are tumbling about in 
all attitudes, and scuffling for the ball. 
Omana. Nebraska. 
Rev. J. Owen Dorsey ” describes this game: 
Wabaonade, the women’s game of ball.—Two balls of hide are filled with 
earth, grass, or fur, and then joined by a cord. At each end of the playground 
are two gabézu, or hills of earth, blankets, ete., that are from 12 to 15 feet 
@Qetters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American 
Indians, y. 2, p. 146, London, 1841. 
>Omaha Sociology. Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, p. 338, 1884. 
