T04 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS  [2TH. ANN. 24 
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Mono. Hooker cove, Madera county, California. (Cat. no. 71440. 
Field Columbian Museum. ) 
Ball covered with buckskin filled with hair, 44 inches in diameter. 
Collected by Dr J. W. Hudson, who describes it as used in a foot- 
ball game called tanasukwitokoin. 
The above ball is not the right shape. It should be oblong, 8 by 64 inches. 
It is called o-no-wi, and is filled with deer hair. 
Two balls are laid on the starting line, a-na-wi’-a-nu-a-we’, 20 feet apart, 
and at a signal each captain kicks his ball to his partners, who forward it to 
the goal. a-ni-na-ko’-i-na, a hole between a pair of stakes, 350 yards distant. No 
interference whatever is permitted. 
Another football game with the same name, ta-na-sii-kwi-to’-ko-in, is played 
with one ball, 7 inches in diameter, which is dropped in the center of the field 
and kicked or carried in almost the same manner as modern football. The 
goals are pairs of upright poles, 5 feet between and 400 yards apart. 
Paiure. Pyramid lake, Nevada. (Cat. no. 37155, Free Museum of 
Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania.) 
Buckskin-covered ball (figure 921), 3 inches in diameter. It was 
collected by the writer in 1901 through Miss Marian Taylor. 
Called wut-si-mo and used in a football game by men, say, four on a 
side. The object is to kick the ball between two goals, tu-bi, made of willow 
sticks, and some 8 or 10 feet high. The goals are about 50 yards apart, the 
players starting in the center. They wear only a loin 
cloth. 
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Catawsa. South Carolina. 
Mrs R. E. Dunlap. of Leslie, York county, 
South Carolina, writes the author that the Ca- 
tawba formerly played a game of football which 
FiG.921. Football; diam- 7 
eter, 3 inches; Paiute they called wachippu. 
Indians, Nevada; cat. 
no. 37155, Free Museum WASHOAN STOCK 
of Science and Art, 
pemes: of Penn Wasno. Carson valley and Lake Tahoe, Ne- 
Syivania. 
vada. 
Dr J. W. Hudson describes this tribe using a football, kawmal, 
6 inches in diameter, and filled with the inner bark of the sagebrush. 
The goals, maw’-tap, consist of two sets of poles, 10 feet high and about 4 feet 
apart, at either end of the field, which is about 300 feet long. The game is like 
our football. There are three players to a side, and the ball is cast up in the 
center of the field by a captain. The game is called pa-law’-ya-paw. 
Hanp-anp-Foor Banu 
I have classified under the name of hand-and-foot ball a woman’s 
game played with a large ball, which is struck down with the hand 
“In a letter, September 1, 1901. 
