670 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS [erH. ann. 24 
year 1850, where he spent several years in the immediate vicinity of 
the tribe now under consideration, which formerly lived in the 
Sacramento basin: 
Their football game was more properly a foot race. Two parallel tracks were 
laid off and each party had its own ball. Two athletic young fellows, repre- 
senting the two contending parties, took their stand at one end, each with a 
ball on the ground in front of him, and at the signal each kicks it along his 
respective track towards the goal. All along the line were stationed relays of 
players, whose duty it was to assist in getting the ball through. It was a rough- 
and-tumble game, to see who should kick the ball, for no one was allowed to 
touch it with his hand. Two posts were put up at each end of the track, and 
the ball must be driven between these posts. Betting was heavy, the stakes 
being Indian trinkets of all kinds, and judges and stakeholders presided with a 
great deal of dignity. The score was kept by means of an even number of 
short sticks, and as each player drove the ball home, he drew out one of the 
sticks, and so on until the game was won. It was a very exciting play and 
aroused as much interest as does a horse race among the whites. 
Wasama. Near Grant Springs, Mariposa county, California. 
Dr J. W. Hudson describes these Indians as playing a game with a 
ball made of deer hair and provided with a buckskin cover, in which 
two men each contest or race with their ball along a prescribed 
course to a certain goal. 
The name of the game is ték’mé, to kick; and that ot the ball, pu’kt, little 
dog, pup. 
PIMAN STOCK 
Opata. Sonora, Mexico. 
Mr A. F. Bandelier® says: 
The Ua-ki-mari is rather a foot-race than a game of ball, for the runners toss 
the ball before them with their toes, and the party whose “ gomi,” or ball of a 
certain kind of wood, reaches the goal first is declared the victor. 
Village plays against village. The Maynates or captains of the runners are 
important personages on such days, and what is evidently primitive, and shows 
besides that there is a religious import placed upon the ceremony, is the fact 
that they formerly used to gather the evening before at « drinking bout, smok- 
ing at the same time the fungus of the mesquite, called in Opata to-ji, in long 
and big cigar-like rolls. 
Paraco. Mission of San Xavier del Bac, Pima county, Arizona. 
(Cat. no. 63485, Field Columbian Museum. ) 
Ball of mesquite wood, 31 inches in diameter, designated by the col- 
lector, Mr 8. C. Simms, as a football, sonecua. 
Papaco. Arizona. 
Dr H. F. C. ten Kate, jr,” says: 
One of the few bodily exercises they have is a sort of ball game in which they 
use a ball made of hard gum, which is kicked. without stopping by two men 
« Final Report, pt. 1, p. 240, Cambridge, 1890. 
> Reizen en Onderzoekingen in Noord-Amerika, p. 29, Leiden, 1885, 
