The Ball Play
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.1101 B 1
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
name: label: Creator
content: Catlin, George, 1796-1872
topic: label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Southern states
creator: label: Creator
content: Catlin, George, 1796-1872
culture: label: Culture
content: Choctaw
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / Catlin, George, 1796-1872
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (8x10 in)
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Ball-play of the Choctaws; ball up; one party painted white; each side has two sticks, with a web at their ends, in which they catch the ball and throw it; they all have tails of horse-hair or quills attached to their girdles or belts. Painted by George Catlin in 1832. Donaldson Number 428, page 126.

9/67 - new N. C. F. A. Negative should be used: Ball-up= Negative 776-c. Ball-down= 647-c.