cuLin] HAND-AND-FOOT BALL: CHEYENNE 705 
and kicked back with the foot. The ball is covered either with buck- 
skin (Cheyenne, Eskimo, Mandan) or with bladder netted with sinew 
(Grosventres, Crows). 
It is commonly played by one woman at a time, but among the 
Eskimo two or four play. The Cheyenne count the game with sticks, 
and their ball has a thong attached. 
The game has been found among two Algonquian tribes (Chey- 
enne, Grosventres), among the Eskimo, and among four Siouan tribes 
(Assiniboin, Crows, Mandan, Winnebago). Included in this divi- 
sion is a ball with a thong, from the Arapaho, which is struck only 
with the hand. 
ALGONQUIAN STOCK 
Arapano. Wind River reservation, Wyoming. (Cat. no. 36977, Free 
Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania.) 
Buckskin ball (figure 922), with median seam, 24 inches in diameter, 
one face marked with a cross in colored quill work, attached to a 
thong 19 inches in length. 
Fig. 922. Fig. 923. 
Fic. 922. Ball with thong; diameter, 2} inches; Arapaho Indians, Wyoming; cat. no. 36977, Free 
Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
Fic. 923. Hand-and-foot ball; diameter, 9} inches; Cheyenne Indians, Montana; cat. no. 69978, 
Field Columbian Museum. 
The end of the thong is held in the hand, and the ball is thrown 
up and caught. 
Collected by the writer in 1900. The name is kowwha; it is used in 
a girl’s game. 
CHEYENNE. Cheyenne reservation, Montana. (Field Columbian 
Museum. ) 
Cat. no. 69978. Kicking football (figure 923), covered with buck- 
skin, irregularly elliptical, with two faces, consisting of disks of 
buckskin sewed to a middle band 2 inches wide and painted red, 
to which is attached a buckskin thong 24 inches in length; 
diameter, 94 inches. 
Collected by Mr S. C. Simms in 1901. The thong is held in the 
hand and the ball kicked repeatedly. It is used in a woman’s game. 
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