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Title: League of the Ho-dé-no-sau-nee, or Iroquois
Year: 1851 (1850s)
Authors: Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881
Subjects: Iroquois Indians Names, Geographical
Publisher: Rochester : Sage & Brother New York : M.H. Newman & Co. (etc.)
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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GA-NE-A, OR BALL BAT, 5 FEET Witli the Iroquois, tlie Ball game, O-tctrdcirjish-qua-age^ was the favorite among their amusementsof this description. This game reaches back to aremote antiquity, was universal among the redraces, and was played with a degree of zeal and en-thusiasm which would scarcely be credited. It wasplayed with a small deer-skin ball, by a select band,usually from six to eight on a side, each set repre-senting its own party. The game was divided intoseveral contests, in which each set of players stroveto carry the ball through their own gate. Theywent out into an open plain or field, and erected gates,about eighty rods apart, on its opposite sides. Eachgate was simply two poles, some ten feet high, set inthe ground about three rods asunder. One of thesegates belonged to each party: and the contest be-tween the players was, which set would first carry
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6A-KA OR BREECH CLOTH Ch. v.) BALL GAME, 295 the ball tlirougli its own a given number of times.Either five or seven made the game, as the partiesagreed. If five, for example, was the number, thepaity which first carried, or drove the ball throughits own gate this numl^er of times, won the victory.Thus, after eight separate contests, the parties mightstand equal, each having w^on four; in which casethe party which succeeded on the ninth contestwould carry the game. The players commenced inthe centre of the field, midway between the gates.If one of them became fatigued or disabled duringthe progress of the game, he was allowed to leavethe ranks, and his party could supply his place witha fresh player, but the original number were not atany time allowed to be increased. Regular man-agers w^ere appointed on each side to see that therules of the game were strictly and fairly observed.One rule forbade the players to touch the ball withthe hand or foot. In preparing for this game, the j^lay

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