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Guess Who
Two files, A and B, stand on opposite sides of the room, faci...

Hop Toads
The players form a circle, hands joined. One toad stands in t...

Blind Blow
A lighted candle is placed upon a table. The players are blin...

Confusions.
The players are provided with pencil and paper. Each player...

Hands Up Hands Down
_10 to 60 players._ _Schoolroom._ This is a schoolroo...

Simple Acrostics
There are "Simple Acrostics" and "Double Acrostics." The simp...

Hunt The Rattler
All of the players in the room are blindfolded, except one, w...

Hunt The Slipper
The players sit in a circle on the floor, with their knees a ...

INTRODUCTION

Source: Indian Games
Category: Ball Games





Indian ball games have one feature not found in the ball games as played by
us; that is, with the Indian the ball is never pitched and tossed by hand
during the play. At the opening of an Indian game the ball must be tossed
by hand, but after that the ball is struck by a racket, stick or club and
in that way sent from player to player and on to the goal. An exception to
this general rule is found in an Omaha ball game given in the following
pages.

The opening ceremony requires the ball to be handled and moved in a
peculiar and ceremonial manner by the hand of the Umpire before he tosses
it up for the beginning of the actual play.

The balls used by the Indians are of different materials--buckskin stuffed
with hair; formed from roots, such as the wild-grape vine; wood; bladder
netted with sinew; and in a few instances, of bone or stone.

Three ball games are here given.




Next: BALL AND RACKET

Previous: THE OPENING CEREMONY



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