702 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS [B5TH. ann. 24 
IROQUOIAN STOCK 
Wryanpor. Kansas. 
Mr William E. Connelley writes the author as follows: 
They played a game of ball which they say was much like our modern foot- 
ball, but I never could get enough information about it to warrant me in 
describing it as in any way different from the well-known game of Indian ball. 
MARIPOSAN STOCK 
Cuuxcuanst. Table mountain, Fresno county, California. 
Dr J. W. Hudson describes the following game under the name 
of eye: 
Two or more men play on a side, using a stone ball, she’-lel o’-lol (‘stone 
ball”). Ata signal each captain kicks (foot casts) his respective ball forward 
to his partners, who forward it in the same manner to a goal line, wéx, 400 
yards distant. The one whose ball is first over the line wins. 
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Fig. 919. Plan of ball field; Topinagugim Indians, California; from a sketch by Dr J. W. 
Hudson. 
MOQUELUMNAN STOCK 
Torrnacuemm. Big creek, 2 miles north of Groveland, California. 
(Field Columbian Museum.) 
Cat. no. 70224. Buckskin-covered ball, filled with deer hair, with 
median seam, 44 inches in diameter. 
Cat. no. 70225. Buckskin-covered ball, filled with moss, with median 
seam, 7 inches in diameter. 
These were collected by Dr J. W. Hudson, who describes them as 
footballs. 
He also describes the following game under the name of puskaw, 
football : 
The ball is an oblate spheroid, 13 inches long by 8 inches in its shorter diam- 
eter, and consists of buckskin filled with deer hair. A straight, level course 
of about 500 yards is laid out, at one end of which the two balls are placed 
about 12 feet apart. The two opposing starters, pa-chu’-pé, stand about 50 
« By-&’ is name for manzanita tree, and it is probable the ball was once made from this 
dense, heavy timber.—J. W. H. 
