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used by boys. The regular kicking sticks are made of oak. Tsa-tio hu-chi 
made the game first. \ 
Keres. Cochiti, New Mexico. (Cat. no. 4978, Brooklyn Institute 
Museum. ) 
Two wooden billets (figure 888), 2 inches in length and about seven- 
eighths of an inch in diameter, one painted red and the other 
yellow. 
These were made by a Keres boy from Cochiti, named Francisco 
Chaves (Kogit), at St Michael, Arizona, who describes the billets 
under the name of tawaka and mentions them as being kicked in the 
race of the same name. 
Boys, girls, and men play. Sides are chosen, and the sticks are kicked with 
the bare feet. 
— Laguna, New Mexico. (Cat. no. 3006, Brooklyn Institute 
Museum. ) 
Two wooden billets (figure 889), 1% inches in length and about 1 
inch in diameter. One of these billets has a band of red paint 
around the middle, and the other is plain, except the ends, 
which are painted red. These implements were collected by the 
writer in 1903. 
Fig. 888. Fig. 889. 
Fic. 888. Kicking billets; length, 2 inches; Keres Indians, Cochiti, New Mexico; cat. no. 4978, 
Brooklyn Institute Museum. 
Fic. 889. Kicking billets; length, 1; inches; Keres Indians, Laguna, New Mexico; cat. no. 3006, 
Brooklyn Institute Museum. 
Tha sticks are called tow-wa-ka; the one with the red band ku-ka-ni tow-wa- 
ka, and the other sho-mutz tow-wa-ka. The game is called ka-tcho-wai. The 
blocks are kicked with the bare feet around a designated course. Sides are 
chosen and there is one block for each. It may not be thrown with the hands, 
but they may place it on the toe to give it a good kick. 
MOQUELUMNAN STOCK 
Cosumnt. California. 
Mr James Mooney? writes as follows from information obtained 
from Col. Z. A. Rice. of Atlanta, Ga., who went to California in the 
4Notes on the Cosumnes Tribes of California. The American Anthropologist, v. 3, 
p. 261, 1890. 
