Ball Play
Large group of Indians engaged in the game of lacrosse (Plate 23). "Having in the two former illustrations and their chapters, explained to the readers the costume and preliminaries of the Ball-play, I here introduce them to the ball-play ground, where five of six hundred youths, with chastened and oiled limbs, and with empty stomachs, as I have described are met upon the ground and actually engaged in the play. At the hour of the morning designated for the commencement of the play, the young men, having completed their dancing, appeared on the ground, each with the ball-sticks in his hangs, and in all other respects prepared for the play, which commenced, but nine o'clock, by the old men, the judges of the play, throwing up the ball, at the firing of a gun, exactly at the point half-way between the two byes, around which were stationed an equal number of players from each side, who instantly commenced the scuffle for the ball as it descended; each party endeavoring to catch it between their ball-sticks and to throw it through their own goal, which, when successfully done, counted one for the game." |
Image ID: | 23641 |
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Creation Date: | 1844 |
Creator Name: | Catlin, George |
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Collection Name: | Rare Books |
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Original Format Type: | prints, fine-art |
Original Format Number: | E77 C399 1844 |
Original Dimensions: | 22 x 16 inches |
Image source: Catlin, George. Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio. Hunting Scenes and Amusements of the Rocky Mountains and Prairies of America. From Drawings and Notes of the Author, Made during Eight Years' Travel amongst Forty-Eight of the Wildest and Most Remote Tribes of Savages in North America. (London: Geo. Catlin, 1844). This image is also viewable in the American Journeys online edition of "Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio." |
Trees |
Clothing and dress |
Indians of North America |
Social life and customs |
Landscape |
Crowds |
Men |
Sports |
Sports spectators |
Horses |
Painting |
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