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NATCHESAN STOCK 
Narcuez. Louisiana. 
Le Page du Pratz* wrote: 
The young people, especially the girls, have hardly any kind of diversion but 
that of the ball: this consists in tossing a ball from one to the other with the 
palm of the hand, which they perform with tolerable address. 
PUJUNAN STOCK 
Nisuinam. California. 
Mr Stephen Powers ” describes the following game: 
The pos’-ka huk’-um-toh kom-peh’ (tossing the ball) is a boys’ game. They 
employ a round wooden ball, a buckeye, or something, standing at three bases 
or corners, and toss it around from one to the other. If two of them start to 
exchange corners, and the third “ crosses out” or hits either of them, he scores 
one, and they count up to a certain number, which completes the game. 
SALISHAN STOCK 
Tuomeson Inprans (NriakyaraAMuKk). British Columbia. 
Mr James Teit © says: 
The Lower Thompson had a ball game in which the ball was thrown up by 
one player. The player who caught it ran with it until overtaken by another 
player, who in his turn ran with it until a certain goal was reached. 
SIOUAN STOCK 
Assinrporn. Fort Union, Montana. 
Mr Edwin T. Denig? says: 
The women play hand and foot bail. 
Hipatsa. Fort Clark, North Dakota. 
Maximilian, Prince of Wied,’ referring to a visit of this tribe at 
Fort Clark, on November 27, 1833, speaks of some of the women 
“playing with a leathern ball, which they flung upon the ice, caught 
it, and then threw it into the air, catching it as it fell.” 
ZUNIAN STOCK 
Zox1. Zuni, New Mexico. (Cat. no. 5000, Brooklyn Institute Mu- 
seum. ) 
Cotton cloth-covered ball (figure 929), ovate, with median seam, 6 
inches in diameter. 
¢ Histoire de la Louisiane, v. 3, p. 5, Paris, 1768. 
>’ Tribes of California. Contributions to North American Ethnology, v. 3, p. 331, Wash- 
ington, 1877. 
¢The Thompson Indians of British Columbia. Memoirs of the American Museum of 
Natural History, v. 2, p. 278, New York, 1900. 
4 Unpublished manuscript in the library of the Bureau of American Ethnology. 
¢Travels in the Interior of North America, translated by H. Evans Lloyd, p. 422, 
London, 1843. 
