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Mr John G. Owens “ describes the game as follows: 
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Po-ke-an.—This game is somewhat similar to our popular game called battle- 
door and shuttlecock. Green corn-husks are wrapped into a flat mass about 2 
inches square, and on one side are placed two feathers, upright; then, using this 
as a shuttlecock and the hand for a battledoor, they try how many times they can 
knock it into the air. Some become very skillful in this, and as they return the 
shuttlecock to the air they count aloud in their own language—To-pa, quil-é, hi, 
a-we-ta, ap-ti, etc. The striking resemblance to our European game suggests a 
common origin, and it may easily have been introduced through contact with the 
Spaniards. This, however, is doubtful, and I am inclined to think that we 
must give the Indian the credit of inventing this game rather than borrowing it, 
as similarity of product by no means proves identity of origin. 
Fig. 943. 
Fic. 942. Shuttlecocks; height, 5 to 7 inches; Zuni Indians, Zuni, New Mexico; cat. no. 16306, 
Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
Fig. 943. Shuttlecocks; height, 8 inches; Zuni Indians, Zuni, New Mexico; eat. no. 3087, 3088, 
Brooklyn Institute Museum. 
ZuNxr Zuni, New Mexico. (Cat. no. 3087, 3088 
Museum. ) ; 
Two delicate packets of woven corn husk (figure 943) stuck with 
down feathers, 8 inches in height. 
Collected by the writer in 1903. The name was given to him as 
pokianawai. 
Mrs Matilda Coxe Stevenson describes this game under the name of 
po'kinanane (plural, potkiannawe), the implements being made of 
corn husks neatly interlaced, forming a square of about an inch and 
a half, with two delicate feathers projecting from the center. She 
says: ? 
Brooklyn Institute 
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So named because the sound produced by the shuttlecock coming in con- 
tact with the palm of the hand is similar to the noise of the tread of a jack rab- 
bit upon frozen snow. The game is played as frequently by the younger boys as 
by their elders, and always for stakes. 
“Some Games of the Zuni. Popular Science Monthly, v. 39, p. 39, New York, 1901. 
>Zuni Games. American Anthropologist, n. s., vy. 5, p. 492, 1903. 
