698 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS [ETH. ANN. 24 
Wyandot, Catawba (with uncertainty), Eskimo, Chukchansi, Topin- 
agugim, Achomawi, Nishinam, Skokomish, Mono, Paiute, and 
Washo. The game was played by men (Micmac, Paiute); by men 
and women opposed (Topinagugim), and by men, women, and chil- 
dren (Eskimo). The balls were of buckskin (Micmac, Eskimo, Topin- 
agugim, Achomawi, Nishinam, Mono, Paiute), or of stone (Chuk- 
chansi), and the goals were two sticks, erect (Paiute, Topinagugim, 
Nishinam, Mono) or placed slantingly (Micmac), or lines drawn at 
the ends of the course (Eskimo, Chukchansi). 
In a California game (Topinagugim, Mono) the ball is kicked by 
successive players who are lined up along the course, corresponding 
with a game in which the ball is similarly tossed along the course 
with curved or spoon-shaped sticks (Mono). In one game (Topin- 
agugim) men and women are opposed, the men kicking the ball and 
the women tossing it with flail-shaped baskets. The game appears to 
be most popular among the Eskimo, with whom in one instance it is 
complicated by the ball being whipped as well as kicked. 
ALGONQUIAN STOCK 
Massacuuser. Massachusetts. 
William Wood ¢ wrote: 
For their sports of activity they have commonly but three or four, as football, 
shooting, running, and swimming: when they play county against county there 
are rich goals, all behung with wompompeage, mowhackies, beaver skins and 
black otter skins. It would exceed the belief of many to relate the worth ~ 
of one goal, wherefore it shall be nameless. Their goals be a mile long, placed 
on the sands, which are even as a board; their ball is no bigger than a hand- 
ball, which sometimes they mount in the air with their naked feet, sometimes 
it is swayed by the multitude, sometimes also it is two days before they get a 
goal; then they mark the ground they win and begin there the next day. Before 
they come to this sport they paint themselves, even as when they go to war, in 
policy to prevent mischief, because no man should know him that moved his 
patience, or accidentally hurt his person, taking away the occasion of study- 
ing revenge. Before they begin their arms be disordered and hung upon some 
neighboring tree, after which they make a long scroll on the sand, over which 
they shake loving hands and with laughing hearts scuffle for victory. While 
the men play, the boys pipe, and the women dance and sing trophies of their 
husbands conquests; all being done, a feast summons their departure. It is 
most delightful to see them play in smaller companies, when men may view 
their swift footmanship, their curious tossings of their ball, their flouncing into 
the water, their lubber-like wrestling, having no cunning at all in that kind, one 
English being able to beat ten Indians at football. 
Micmac. Nova Scotia. 
Mr Stansbury Hagar ” says: 
The only other Micmac game [than the bowl game] of which I have learned 
is tooadijik or football. The goals were of two sticks placed slantingly across 
«New England’s Prospect, p. 78, London, 1634. 
> Micmac Customs and Traditions. ‘The American Anthropologist, v. 8, p. 35, 1895. 
