 These Indian men are bare-chested and painted with body paint. They are wearing feathers on their head, a necklace, and a fringed garment around his waist. The creator of this illustration is by Theodor de Bry and was created in 1590. | Ishtaboli Ishtaboli is a stick and ball game that the French colonists renamed lacrosse. The Choctaw men really loved to play this ball game. The game was very violent so the Choctaw called it "the little brother of war." They played in fields that hold up to seven hundred ishtaboli players at one time that the Choctaw built. Warriors and nobles when they play, they wear loincloths and fringed belts and elaborate structures covered in egret feathers that stuck out behind them like tails. They also wear headdresses to play the game. They long sticks that they carried to play was made from wood with webbed ends woven from strips of deer hide.  A Choctaw ishtaboli player |
