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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



allowed to fall on another blanket. Two of the pieces belong to 

 each man and are companions. The manner in which the sticks 

 fall determines the result. There is a pool with twelve markers 

 in it, and he who wins the markers wins the game. The winner 



takes the twelve 

 markers up into 

 his hands and 

 breathes on them. 

 This is because 

 they have been 

 good to him and 

 allowed him to 

 win. It is wholly 

 a game of chance, 

 and horses, guns, 

 saddles, and every- 

 thing are staked 

 upon the throw. 

 Tash-a-le-wa. 



Fig. 2. Manner of holding the Reeds in Sho-le-wa. 1H1S IS a game 01 



chance, is played 

 by two, and is very popular. The players sit on the ground, with a 

 ring of forty small stones, in four sections of ten stones each, be- 

 tween them. The ring is usually several feet in diameter. In the 

 center is a large flat stone called a-rey-ley, upon which the players 

 make their throws. The dice, ta-mey, are small flat sticks about 

 three inches long, and painted red on one side. These are taken 

 in the right hand and thrown endwise on the central stone. If 

 the three red sides turn up, the player scores ten and gets another 

 throw ; if the three white sides, he gets five ; two red and one white, 

 three ; two white and one red, two. For counting, each player 

 has a stick called a horse, or touclie. Starting from the same in- 

 terval in the circle of stones, each player moves his marker over 

 as many stones as he has won points. Should the two meet at 

 the same interval, the second one coming there will send the first 

 one back home, and he must begin over. The idea, as given by 

 the Indians, is, that the new-comer has dismounted or killed the 

 first one. The horse is supposed to stop and drink at the inter- 

 vals between the groups of stones. One game which I witnessed 

 had loaded rifle-cartridges for stakes. Each player places his bet 

 within the circle of stones. 



Ti-kiva-we, or Game of the Kicked Stick* This is the great 



* This game was described by Mr. F. Webb Hodge, in the Anthropologist for July, 

 1890. I have thought well to repeat it here in connection with the other games, and also 

 to make some corrections and add several points which Mr. Hodge seems to have over- 

 looked. 



