cCULIN] FOOTBALL: ACHOMAWI 703 
feet behind their respective balls, and, at the signal, ‘“ Wisaetch!” the two 
opponents rush forward and kick their balls to their respective partners sta- 
tioned next to them on the course, also running after the ball to assist, if 
necessary. No interference or handling of the ball is allowed. The penalty is 
usually the confiscation of the stakes. The number of players regulates the 
length of the course. Often fifty play. 
Dr J. W. Hudson describes also the following ball game, played 
between men and women under the name umta: 
The ball, pfis’-piteh-ki, consists of an oblate spheroid 4 by 7 inches in diameter, 
covered with buckskin and stuffed with deer hair. 
The goals are two sets of poles, 3 feet apart and 8 feet high, bent at the top 
to form an arch, and 600 yards apart. The men are stationed in a line on one 
side and the women on the other [figure 919]. ‘The starters, five men and five 
women, arranged alternately, stand in a line in the center of the field, at right 
angles to the goal course. At a word, a man casts down the ball and each side 
tries to secure it. The women must advance the ball with their hands or with a 
handled basket, a-ma-ta, while the men can kick only, and must not throw or 
touch the ball with their hands, nor can they interfere with their hands. The 
women are yery expert and throw the ball long distances. 
PUJUNAN STOCK 
NisuinamM. Mokelumne river, 12 miles south of Placerville, Cali- 
fornia. 
Dr J. W. Hudson describes the following game: 
Pas’-ko, football.e—The ball, pas-k6, is oblong, 12 inches in longest diameter, 
covered with buckskin and stuffed with deer hair. There are 
eight players to a side. One ball is used. The goals consist 
of pairs of poles, 3 feet apart, at the ends of a 1,000-foot 
course. Rough play is the rule, as a player is allowed to run 
with the ball in his hands, and interference is permissible. 
SALISHAN STOCK 
Sxoxomisu. British Columbia. Fic. 920. Football; 
. arlac = Hes <= ques Pp diameter. 4 in- 
Mr Charles Hill-Tout | refers to a kind of football eV chomawi 
under the name of tequila. Indians, Hat 
ereek, Califor- 
nia; cat. no. ffs, 
American Mu- 
" x seum of Natural 
AcHomawi. Hat creek. California. (Cat. no. 7$%,, History. 
American Museum of Natural History.) 
SHASTAN STOCK 
Ball covered with buckskin (figure 920), 4 inches in diameter. Col- 
lected in 1903 by Dr Roland B. Dixon, who describes it as a foot- 
ball, pwatoqwaiwi. 
*The name of this game, as also probably the game, was of Miwok introduction.— 
Ja nwerk: 
+ Notes on the Sk’qo’mic of British Columbia. Report of the Seventieth Meeting of the 
British Association for the Advancement of Science, p. 488, London, 1900. 
