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Flute youth and the Flute maid throw annulets and cylinders, de- 
seribed under “ Double ball,” to which game the ball race is appar- 
ently closely related. 
The existence of the ball race at an early period is proved by speci- 
mens of the kicking-sticks (figure 884) in the cliff-dwellmgs. <A pair 
of such billets from Mancos canyon, identified by Mr Cushing, is in 
the Free Museum of Science and Art of the University of Pennsyl- 
vania. They are made of cottonwood, one 44 inches in length and 18 
inches in diameter, marked around with sharply incised parallel lines 
about one-fourth of an inch apart; the other 5 inches long and 13 
inches in diameter, with similar incised lines in diamond pattern. 
Another pair (figure 885) from the same place are simple sections of 
Fig. 885. Fig. 8&6 
Fig. 884. Kicking billets; lengths, 4) and 5inches; cliff-dwelling, Mancos canyon, Colorado: Free 
Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
Fig. 88%. Kicking billets; lengths, 4j and 5inches; cliff-dwelling, Mancos canyon, Colorado; Free 
Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
Fig. 886. Clown kicking billet; Mexico, 1583; reverse of Hispano-American playing card, impres- 
sion, 2} by 4 inches: from photograph of the original in the Archives of the Indies, Seville, 
Spain. 
twig, 4% and 5 inches in length and three-fourths of an inch in 
diameter. Many of the unidentified stone balls found in ruins and 
graves at various places in the Southwest may have been used in this 
game. 
A picture of a travesty of the kicked-stick game, identified by Mr 
Cushing, is printed on the reverse of an Hispano-American playing 
card, engraved in Mexico in 1583 and preserved in the Archives of the 
Indies at Seville, Spain. This curious and interesting relic repre- 
sents a clown (figure 886), fantastically dressed in the native cere- 
monial costume, standing on his head and kicking a huge billet in 
the air with his feet. 
The ball race has been adopted from the Indians by the Mexicans 
of the Rio Grande. Capt. John G. Bourke, of the United States 
