Hat-Ball
Source text
Section titled “Source text”When I was among the Chepewyan Indians of Great Slave Lake, in 1907, I made myself popular with the young men, as well as boys, by teaching them the old game of hat-ball.
The players (about a dozen) put their hats in a row near a house, fence, or log (hollows up). A dead line is drawn ten feet from the hats; all must stand outside of that. The one who is “it” begins by throwing a soft ball into one of the hats. If he misses the hat, a chip is put into his own, and he tries over. As soon as he drops the ball into a hat, the owner runs to get the ball; all the rest run away. The owner must not follow beyond the dead line, but must throw the ball at some one. If he hits him, a chip goes into that person’s hat; if not, a chip goes into his own.
As soon as some one has five chips, he wins the booby prize: that is, he must hold his hand out steady against the wall, and each player has five shots at it with the ball, as he stands on the dead line.
Metadata
Section titled “Metadata”- Type: game
- Traits: Not stated in the source
- Source: Ernest Thompson Seton, Boy Scouts Handbook: The Games (1911)
- Printed pages: 303–304
- Digital edition: Digital edition · Source record
- Open the edition at the relevant page: p. 303
- Read the automatic translation: bsh-021