Pilota Handball
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival / Series 2: Basque: Innovation by Culture / 2.3: Audio
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content: 1 Sound recording (digital audio file)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2016 July 04
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
identifier: label: Identifier
content: CFCH.SFF.2016, Item SFF2016_0704_Basque_Frontoia_0001
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content: Archival materials
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Listening copies available
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content: John Bieter Known as the fastest ball game in the world, with speeds reaching over 124 mph, Basque pilota is a game that involves throwing or hitting a rubber or leather ball against a wall. It is played in a two or three wall court called frontoia, and points are scored by hitting the ball off of the front wall in a way in which the opposing players cannot return the ball before it bounces twice on the ground. See professional play the sport, and learn how to play!