Object Details
- Book Title
- Bulletin -- Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology.
- Caption
- Ball rackets. Shinny ball and stick.
- Educational Notes
- Bring your A gameĀand your racquet! Native Americans had plenty of games they liked to play during their free time, especially games focused around using a ball and sticks like the two, netted racquets and ball in the image. The racquets would be used to pick the ball up from the ground, throw, catch, and shoot it into or past a goal to score a point. This stickball sport created and played by Native Americans is what we now call lacrosse. In the early 1900s, many tribes would played their own version of lacrosse. Southeastern tribes would use a double-stick, while others would use various lengths of stick. Some racquets would be netted and made from animal skins, while others would be made of wood that was burnt and scraped out to make the shape. No matter how they played, many Native American tribes enjoyed stickball sports and continue to play hundreds of years later!
- Culture
- Native American
- 1907
- Publication Date
- 1907
- Image ID
- SIL-bulletin3011907smit_0502_crop
- Catalog ID
- 588092
- Rights
- No Copyright - United States
- Type
- Prints
- Publication Place
- Washington (D.C.)
- Publisher
- Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology
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- Smithsonian Libraries
- Topic
- Native Americans
- Games
- Sports
- Language
- English
- Record ID
- silgoi_68401
