CULIN] SHUTTLECOCK: ZUNI 719 
Dr George A. Dorsey describes the game as played equally by 
boys and girls under the name of thahatla; the bat he gives as tla- 
hayak. 
Niwnisu. Nimkish river, British Columbia. (Cat. no. ¢;'%;;, Amer- 
ican Museum of Natural History.) 
Battledoor (figure 940), consisting of eight strips of cedar wood 
lashed with cedar bark to two sticks on either side to form a rec- 
tangle 94 by 104 inches, with a cedar-wood handle in the center, 
17 inches long. Collected by Dr Franz Boas in 1900. 
OprrcHesant. Vancouver island, 
British Columbia. 
(Gate mos IV AG 9: 
Berlin Museum fiir 
Volkerkunde. ) 
Wooden battledoor (figure 941), 
a round plaque of wood 
with a handle of the same 
piece, 12 inches in length. 
The collector, Capt. Samuel 
Jacobsen, gives the name as 
eidzatsek, that of the shuttle- 
cock as tklapaek. 
Fig. 940. Fig. 941. 
Fia. 940. Battledoor; length, 17 inches; Nimkish Indians, British Columbia; cat. no. syyhx, Amer- 
ican Museum of Natural History 
Fic. 941. Battledoor; length, 12 inches; Opitchesaht Indians, Vancouver island, British Colum- 
bia; cat. no. lV A 7119, Berlin Museum fiir Vélkerkunde. 
ZUNIAN STOCK 
Zuxt. Zuni, New Mexico. (Cat. no. 16306, Free Museum of Science 
and Art, University of Pennsylvania. ) 
Shuttlecocks (figure 942), square thick bundles of corn husk, tied 
around at the top, and having four feathers inserted; height, 
from 5 to 7 inches. Made by Mr Cushing in 1893. 
4 Games of the Makah Indians of Neah Bay. The American Antiquarian, y. 23, p. 71, 1901. 
