706 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS [BTH. Ann. 24 
Cat. no. 68977. Buckskin ball flattened (figure 924), with median 
seam, painted red, 74 inches in diameter; accompanied by twenty 
counting sticks, willow twigs, painted red, 84 inches in length. 
These were collected in 1901 by Mr S. C. Simms, who says the ball is 
kicked in the air and caught on the foot, the operation being repeated 
until the player misses. A stick is given for each successful stroke. 
This is a woman’s game. 
Curyenne. Oklahoma. 
Mr Louis L. Meeker writes that girls kick a little ball in the air, 
counting the number of times it is done without letting ball or foot 
touch the ground. 
— Colorado. 
Prof. F. V. Hayden® gives under ball: e-hu-a-si-wa-to, to play 
ball with the foot. 
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Fig. 925. 
Fic. 924. Hand-and-foot ball; diameter. 7} inches; Cheyenne Indians, Montana; cat. no. 68977, 
Field Columbian Museum. 
Fig. 925. Position of players in women’s football game; Western Eskimo, Alaska; from Nelson, 
Grosventres. Fort Belknap, Montana. (Cat. no. ;3%,, American 
Museum of Natural History.) 
Ball, covered with a bladder and twined with a network of sinew; 
diameter, 6 inches. Described by the collector, Dr A. L. Kroe- 
ber, as a football. 
ESKIMAUAN STOCK 
Eskimo (Western). St Michael, Alaska. 
Mr E. W. Nelson? describes the following game: 
Women’s football (Qn-kil’-i-g'it). . . . This game is played by women 
usually during the fall and winter. The ball used is generally considerably 
larger than the one used in the men’s game. The four players stand opposite 
each other [figure 925]. 
Hach pair has a ball, which is thrown or driven back and forth across the 
square. The ball is thrown upon the ground midway between the players, so 
that it shall bound toward the opposite one. She strikes the ball down and 
back toward her partner with the palm of her open hand. Sometimes the ball 
«Contributions to the Ethnography and Philology of the Indian Tribes of the Missouri 
Valley, p. 295, Philadelphia, 1862. 
>The Eskimo about Bering Strait. Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Araeri- 
ean Ethnology, pt. 1, p. 336, 1899. 
