Ball-play. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Native men and boys playing a game similar to lacrosse, near Fort Gibson, Oklahoma.

Illus. in: 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 of North America. London : [1844].

Published in: Many nations: A Library of Congress resource guide for the study of Indian and Alaska native peoples of the United States / edited by Patrick Frazier and the Publishing Office. Washington : Library of Congress, 1996, p. 64.

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