CULIN] FOOT-CAST BALL: CHUKCHANSI 711 
This was made for the writer by Nick Graham, as a copy of a ball 
used by the clowns, or Koyemshi, in a game in the plaza at Zuni, 
May 27, 1904, which he described as follows: 
The clowns produced a large, soft ball, and one of them made a mark 
with his foot across the middle of the plaza from north to south. Sides were 
chosen, half the clowns ranging themselves on one side and half on the other. 
One side had the ball, and one of the players on that side would run forward 
with it to the line and try to strike a player on the other. If he hit him, the 
latter went to the striker’s side, but if he missed, the other side threw the ball. 
Mrs Matilda Coxe Stevenson® says under popone (wool-bag or 
ball) : 
This game is also played by the Ké6yemshi and the Néwekwe fraternity during 
the intermission of the dances. 
Fig. 929. Fig. 930. 
Fic. 929. Ball; diameter, 6 inches; Zuni Indians, Zuni, New Mexico; cat. no. 5000, Brooklyn 
Institute Museum. 
Fig. 930. Stone foot-casting ball; diameter, 4 inches; Chukchansi Indians, Madera county, 
California; cat. no. 70894, Field Columbian Museum. 
Two sides are formed in line, and a man runs out from one side and turns 
his back to his opponents, one of whom advances and throws a small bag filled 
with wool. If he succeeds in striking the one who has his back turned, the 
latter must join the side of the one who strikes; but should the one endeavor- 
ing to strike be hit from the other side before he returns to his ranks, he must 
pass to his opponent’s side. 
Foor-cast Batt 
A game of casting a heavy stone ball with the top of the foot, the 
object being to see who can throw it farthest; observed only in 
California by Doctor Hudson among the tribes of two stocks (Mari- 
posan and Moquelumnan). 
MARIPOSAN STOCK 
CuuKcnuanst. Madera county, California. (Cat. no. 70894, Field 
Columbian Museum.) 
Stone ball (figure 930), 4 inches in diameter. Collected by Dr J. W. 
Hudson, who describes it as used in the foot-putting game. 
4Zuni Games. American Anthropologist, n. s., vy. 5, p. 495, 1903. 
