CULIN] HAND-AND-FOOT BALL: MANDAN 707 
is caught on the toe or hand and tossed up and struck or kicked back toward 
the other side. The person who misses least or has fewer “dead” balls on her 
side wins. At times this game is played only by two women. 
SIOUAN STOCK 
Asstniporn. Fort Union, Montana. 
Mr Edwin T. Denig® says: 
The women play hand and foot ball. 
Crows. Crow agency, Montana. (Cat. no. 154335, United States 
National Museum.) 
Football (figure 926), covered with bladder and twined with sinew; 
diameter, 6 inches. Collected by Dr W. J. Hoffman, who gives 
the name as buh tse. 
Fig. 926. Fig. 927. 
Fic. 926. Hand-and-foot ball; diameter, 6inches; Crow Indians, Montana; cat. no. 154335, United 
States National Museum. 
Fic. 927. Hand-and-foot ball; Mandan Indians, North Dakota; from Maximilian, Prince of 
Wied. 
Crow reservation, Montana. (Field Columbian Museum.) 
Cat. no. 69646. Bladder filled with antelope hair, inclosed in a net- 
work of sinew; diameter, 63 inches. 
Cat. no. 69645. Football, similar to the preceding, 83 inches in diame- 
ter. 
Cat. no. 69647. Football, similar to the preceding, 7 inches in diame- 
ter. 
These specimens were collected in 1901 by Mr 8S. C. Simms, who 
describes them as juggling footballs, boop teje, used in a woman’s 
game. The object is to keep the ball in the air the longest time by 
kicking it or by the greatest number of kicks without a miss. 
Manpan. Fort Clark, North Dakota. 
Maximilian, Prince of Wied,” says: 
The women are expert in playing with a large leathern ball [figure 927], 
which they let fall alternately on their foot and knee, again throwing it up and 
* Unpublished manuscript in the library of the Bureau of American Ethnology. 
> Travels in the Interior of North America, translated by H. Evans Lloyd, p. 358, 
London, 1843. 
