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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 



direction after once starting. If "X" throw IH, moving to "o," and 

 " W" throws the same number, enabling him to move to the same point, 

 he "kills" or throws "X's" horse out of play, and he must start his 

 piece over again; and again, if he should throw 14, he accomplishes the 

 same result (there is no "one" in the stick count). However, if "X" 

 should get to "c" and " W" throw 10 from "house," and get to "(/," he 

 does not kill him. If on the next throw "W" throws 14 and "X" has 

 not moved from "c" he kills him. 



A horse must run entirely around the rectangle and back into the 

 house pockets, where he is safe from being " killed;" but to make him 

 a winning piece, the exact number to count to "rr" must be thrown by 

 the sticks. When a horse is upon a pocket adjoining "<(," a two throw 



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Fig. CI. 



SET OF STA\'ES FOR GAME. 



Lenfitli, 9 inches. 

 Pima Indians, Arizona. 



Cat. No. 27842, U.S.N.M. 



is considered out. The object of the game is to carry all the horses 

 around the pockets and out again at "«," the first player succeeding 

 in this being declared the winner. 



Pima. Arizona. (Cat. Xo. 27842, U.S.X.M.) 



Set of four sticks of willow' wood, 9 inches in length, j| inch in 

 breadth, and ^ inch iu thickness (fig. Gl). Flat on .one side, which is 

 incised with transverse and diagonal lines filled in with black paint; 

 opposite, rounded and painted red. Collected by Mrs. G. Stout. 



Pima. Arizona. (Cat. Xo. 27843, U.S.X.M.) 



Set of four sticks of willow ' wood, 8| inches in length, f inch in 

 breadth, and ^ inch in thickness (fig. 62). Identical with preceding, 

 except in the arrangement of the incised lines. Collected l)y Mrs. G. 

 Stout. 



^ Salix amygdaloides. 



