cuLIN] FOOTBALL: ESKIMO 699 
each other like the poles of the traditional wigwam. About a score of players, 
divided into two parties, faced each other at equal distances from the center of 
the field. The ball was then rolled in by the umpire, and the object of the game 
was to kick it between the goal posts. In more recent times a player may catch 
his opponent by the neck and thus hold him back until he can obtain the ball 
himself, but scalping was anciently employed as a means of disposing of an 
opponent. 
Narracanset. Rhode Island. 
Roger Williams” gives pasuckquakohowauog, they meet to foot- 
ball, and says: 
They have great meetings of foot-ball playing, only in summer, town against 
town, upon some broad sandy shore, free from stones, or upon some soft heathie 
plot, because of their naked feet, at which they have great stakings, but seldom 
quarrel. 
Pownatan. Virginia. 
William Strachey ° says: 
Likewise they have the exercise of football, in which they only forcibly 
encounter with the foot to carry the ball the one from the other, and spurned it 
to the goal with a kind of dexterity and swift footmanship, which is the honour 
of it; but they never strike up one another’s heels, as we do, not accompting 
that praiseworthy to purchase a goal by such an advantage. 
In his vocabulary he gives: “A ball, aitowh.” 
Fig. 917. Footballs; diameters, 2} and 3} inches; Labrador Eskimo, Ungava; cat. no. 90031, 
90032, United States National Museum. 
ESKIMAUAN STOCK 
Eskimo (Laprapor). Ungava. (Cat. no. 90031, 90032, United 
States National Museum.) 
Buckskin-covered balls, one nearly spherical, 24+ inches in diameter, 
and the other rather flattened, 34 inches in diameter, both cov- 
ered with a single piece of buckskin, with a draw string, as 
shown in figure 917; contained in a net bag, made of knotted 
thongs, with a thong draw-string at the mouth. 
4“ Key into the Language of America, London, 1643. 
>The History of Travaile into Virginia Britannia, p. 77. Printed for the Hakluyt 
Society, London, 1849. 
