664 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS _[ETH. Any. 24 
apart. Each pair of hills may be regarded as the “ home,” or “ base,” of one of 
the contending parties, and it is the aim of the members of each party to 
throw the balls between their pair of hills, as that would win the game. 
Two small girls, about 12 years old, stand at each end of the playground 
and act as uhe ginaji® for the women, as the boys do for the men in qabe-gasi. 
Each player has a webaonade, a very small stick of hard or red willow, 
about 5 feet long, and with this she tries to pick up the balls by thrusting the 
end of the stick under the cord. Whoever succeeds in picking them up hurls 
them into the air, as in playing with grace hoops. The women can throw these 
balls very far. Whoever catches the cord on her stick in spite of the efforts 
of her opponents tries to throw it still further and closer to her “ home.” The 
stakes are buffalo hides, small dishes or bowls, women’s necklaces, awls, ete. 
The bases are from 300 to 400 yards apart. The corresponding men’s game is 
Labe-gasi. 
Fic. 879. Santee Dakota women playing double ball, Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin; from Catlin. 
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Wasno. Carson valley and Lake Tahoe, Nevada. 
Dr J. W. Hudson describes the following game played by women 
under the name of tsikayaka: 
A buckskin strap, pé-tsil’-tsi, is contested for by the opposing players, each 
armed with a four-foot rod, tse-kai’-yak. The goals are stakes, two hundred 
feet apart. 
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Yurok. Klamath river, California. (Cat. no. 37259, Free Museum 
of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania.) 
Two bottle-shaped wooden billets (figure 880), 54 inches in length, 
with a knob at the end and two lines of bark left at the center, 
