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Women playing toka (double ball)

Tohono O'odham women's tóka (double ball) game, played with a bent stick made of cat's-claw and a double ball usually of 2 small sticks tied together by a short cord. The aim of the game is to throw the ball past the opponent's goal. At Santa Rosa Indian Day, photograph by Helga Teiwes, September 1979.

(Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona,
Tucson: 52206)

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