CULIN] SHUTTLECOCK : SKOKOMISH (aly 
SHUTTLECOCK 
A game of shuttlecock, played with a wooden battledoor, is com- 
mon among the tribes on the Northwest coast. The Zuni play with 
corn-husk shuttlecocks, stuck with feathers, batted with the hand, 
and a similar object was found in a cliff-dwelling in the Canyon de 
Chelly. Only the two forms occur, and no other distribution has 
been observed. 
PIMAN STOCK 
Poa. Arizona. 
The late Dr Frank Russell “ described the following game: 
Kwaitusiwikit.—The children sometimes amuse themselves by tossing into 
the air corncobs in which from one to three feathers have been stuck. They do 
not shoot arrows at them. 
SALISHAN STOCK 
Betiacoota. Dean inlet, British Columbia. 
(Cat. no. =4$,, 745, American Mu- 
seum of Natural History.) 
Battledoor, made of thin, unpainted boards, 
114 by 134 inches, and shuttlecock, con- 
sisting of a small piece of twig, stuck 
with three feathers. 
These specimens were collected by Mr 
George Hunt and Dr Franz Boas, who gave F496. Battledoor; length, 
the names as laetsta and koamal. dita rita Galan bieseat 
British Columbia. (Cat.no.ITV A 6772, 20. IV _A 6772, Berlin Mu- 
Berlin Museum fiir Vélkerkunde.) Sar oabe we 
Wooden battledoor (figure 936), made of four wooden slats lashed 
to a handle; length, 12} inches. Collected by Capt. Samuel 
Jacobsen. 
CrattaM. Washington. 
A Clallam boy, John Raub, described this tribe as playing the 
wooden battledoor game like the Makah. The name of the battle- 
door, he said, was acquiaten; of the shuttlecock, sacquiah. 
Sxoxomisu. British Columbia. 
Mr Charles Hill-Tout ” describes a game called tekwie: 
This was a kind of shuttlecock and battledore, and a favourite pastime of 
the girls. 
*In a memoir to be published by the Bureau of American Ethnology. 
* Notes on the Sk.g6’mic of British Columbia. Report of the Seventieth Meeting of the 
British Association for the Advancement of Science, p. 488, London, 1900. 
