CULIN] BALL RACE 665 
tied together with a piece of twine, 25 inches in length; accom- 
panied by two long slender sticks (figure 881) or bats, of hard 
wood, pointed and slightly curved at the end, 33 and 35 inches 
in length. Collected by the writer in 1900. 
The billets are called wat-tai; the bats, mai-num-in. The latter 
were obtained from an Indian named Wichapec Billy, 57 years of age, 
who had used them in matches. He said the game was played by 
three parties of three each, who stripped and painted. Money was 
put up, say five dollars on a side. Matches were formerly common 
between Hupa and Wichapec. 
Fig. 880. 
Fig. 882. 
Fic. 880. Double billets: length of each, 5} inches; Yurok Indians, California; cat. no. 37259, 
Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
Fig. 881. Stick for double billets; length, 33 inches; Yurok Indians, California; cat. no. 37259; 
Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
Fic. 882. Double ball; length. 8) inches; Maricopa Indians, Arizona; cat. no. 2924, Brooklyn 
Institute Museum. : 
WISHOSKAN STOCK 
A Batawat Indian at Blue Lake, California, gave the name of the 
long sticks as rocosaiyok wataiwat and that of the tied billets as 
goshwa wik. 
YUMAN STOCK 
Maricopa. Arizona. (Cat. no. 2924, Brooklyn Institute Museum.) 
Double ball (figure 882), made on a plaited leather throng; length, 
84 inches. Collected in 1904 by Mr Louis L. Meeker, who gives 
the name as tus-ho-al kik, and says that the ball is pitched with 
sticks. 
Batt Race 
The ball race appears to be confined to the Southwestern tribes, 
extending into Mexico and westward into California, although it was 
