700 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS _ [BTH. ANN. 24 
Collected by Mr Lucien M. Turner, who deseribes them as foot- 
balls. He says: 
Football calls out everybody, from the aged and bent mother of a numerous 
family to the toddling youngster scarcely able to do more than waddle under 
the burden of his heavy deerskin clothes. 
Eskimo (Koxsoacmiutr). Fort Chimo, Labrador. (Cat. no. 90285, 
United States National Museum. ) 
Buckskin ball, with median seam, 14 inches in diameter, and whip, 
consisting of four loops of buckskin, tied in the middle with a 
single thong, attached to a short wooden handle (figure 918). 
Collected by Mr Lucien M. Turner,’ who says: 
Fic. 918. Football and driver; diameter of ball, 1! inches; Koksoagmiut Eskimo, Fort Chimo, 
Labrador: from Turner. 
Figure 918 represents the football . . . and the whip for driving it. The 
Eskimo are very fond of this game. All the people of every age, from the tod- 
dling infant to the aged female with bended back, love to urge the ai uk tofik, as 
the ball is termed. The size of the ball varies from 3 to 7 inches in diameter. 
They have not yet arrived at perfection in making a spherical form for the 
ball, but it is often an apple shape. It is made by taking a piece of buckskin 
or sealskin and cutting it into a circular form, then gathering the edges and 
stuffing the cavity with dry moss or feathers. A circular piece of skin is then 
inserted to fill the space which is left by the incomplete gatherings. This ball 
is very light and is driven either by a blow from the foot or else by a whip of 
peculiar construction. This whip consists of a handle of wood 8 to 12 inches 
in length. To prevent it from slipping out of the hand when the blow is 
struck, a stout thong of sealskin is made into the form of a long loop which 
is passed over the hand and tightens around the wrist. To the farther end of 
the whip handle are attached a number of stout thongs of heavy sealskin. 
These thongs have their ends tied around the handle and thus form a number 
of loops of 12 to 20 inches in length. These are then tied together at the 
«Ethnology of the Ungava District, Hudson Bay Territory. Eleventh Annual Report 
of the Bureau of Ethnology, p. 255, 1894. 
»Tbid., p. 256. 
