CULIN] TOSSED BALL: CHOCTAW 709 
CHIMMESYAN STOCK 
Nisxka. Nass river, British Columbia. 
Dr Franz Boas* describes a game: 
Tlét!: a ball game.—Four men stand in a square: each pair, standing in 
opposite corners, throw the ball one to the other, striking it with their hands. 
Those who continue longest have won. 
ESKIMAUAN STOCK 
Esxrvo (Centrat). Cumberland sound, Baffin land, Franklin. 
Dr Franz Boas” says: 
The ball [figure 928] is most frequently 
used in summer. It is made of sealskin stuffed 
with moss and neatly trimmed with skin 
straps. One man throws the ball among the 
players, whose object it is to keep it always 
in motion without allowing it to touch the 
ground. 
KOLUSCHAN STOCK 
Turerr. Alaska. 
Dr Aurel Krause ¢ says: 
Ball is played by children as well as adults. 
The young people of the village often passed 
the time in a game in which two sides placed 
themselves opposite each other and threw a 
thick leather ball back and forth, whereby Fic. 928. Ball; Central Eskimo, Cum- 
they exerted themselves never to let it come __berlandsound, Baffin land,Franklin; 
tonthelearth cat. no. TV A 6822, Berlin Museum 
fiir Vélkerkunde; from Boas. 
MUSKHOGEAN STOCK 
Cuocraw. © Mississippi. 
Capt. Bernard Romans? says: 
The women also have a game where they take a small stick, or something else 
off the ground after having thrown up a small ball which they are to catch 
again, having picked up the other; they are fond of it, but ashamed to be seen 
at it. I believe it is this propensity to gaming which has given these savages an 
idea of a meum and tuum above all other nations of America. 
Captain Romans © describes also a game played with a large ball of 
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woolen rags, which he says the men and women play promiscuously 
with the liand only. 
“Fifth Report on the Indians of British Columbia. Report of the Sixty-fifth Meeting 
of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, p. 583, London, 1895. 
>The, Central Eskimo. Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, p. 570, 1888, 
«Die Tlinkit-Indianer, p. 164, Jena, 1885. 
44 Concise Natural History of East and West Florida, v. 1, p. 81, New York, 1775. 
« Ibid., p. 79. 
