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cuLIN] BALL RACE: PIMA ” 671 
who run over a great expanse of country. <A large number of spectators follow 
the two players, either on horseback or on foot, at the same gait. 
Pima. Arizona. (United States National Museum.) 
Cat. no. 76014. Two stone balls (figure 894), consisting of tufa, 
covered with some black vegetable substance, probably mesquite 
gum; diameters, 24 and 22 inches. Described by the collector, 
Dr Edward Palmer, as footballs. 
Cat. no. 27847. Wooden ball (figure 895), 24 inches in diameter, 
covered with mesquite gum. Described by the collector as a 
football. 
Fic. 89. Papago kicking-ball players, Arizona; from photograph by Mr William 
Dinwiddie. 
Dr H. F. C. ten Kate, jr.2 says the Pima have a football game in 
which the ball—sonjikjo—is made of the gum of the greasewood and 
sand. 
—————— Ag Zana: 
The late Dr Frank Russell ® described the kicked ball races of this 
tribe as follows: 
These races were frequently intertribal, and in their contests with the 
Papagos the Pimas nearly always won. The use of these balls in foot races 
is very widespread in the Southwest, and even yet we hear of races taking 
place that exceed twenty miles in length. 
The kicking ball when of wood resembles a croquet ball in size, but it is 
usually covered with a creosote gum. They are made of either mesquite or 
paloverde wood. Stone balls about 6 cm. in diameter are also used, and are 
covered with the same black gum. 
* Reizen en Onderzoekingen en Noord-Amerika, p. 159, Leiden, 1885. 
°In a memoir to be published by the Bureau of American Ethnology. 
