pok-ta-pokn.

1932 F. Blom in Publication No. 4, Middle American Papers (Tulane Univ. of Louisiana) 487 (title) The Maya ball-game pok-ta-pok.

1933 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 63 p. xx Literature concerning the ball-game (called Pok-ta-Pok by the Maya and Tlaxtli by the Aztec) is scanty.

1959 Times 8 June (Latin America Suppl.) p. iv/5 It is recorded that the early Spaniards found the Indians of Guatemala playing a curious game with a ball called pok-ta-pok, but in which the players used not their feet, head, or hands, but their posteriors.

1962 V. W. von Hagen Anc. Sun Kingdoms Amer. ix. 161 The passion of the Maya, and one that they shared with most Central American Indians, was the game of pok-a-tok, it was not unlike the modern basket-ball.

1973 Times 27 Oct. 14/4 Maya life is illustrated by dozens of pottery figurines showing the killing of a deer, musicians, animals and the helmeted men of Lubaantun who are thought to be participants in the sacred ball-game pok-ta-pok.

1990 ‘L. de Bernières’ War Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts xli. 352 For hundreds of years the Incas lived in the valley of the hanging mountain, and built..courts for playing pok-a-tok where sometimes the losing teams were sacrificed.