744 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 



Tepeguana. Cliihualiua, Mexico. (Cat. No. 1039? Amer. Mus. Xat. 



Hist, New York.) 



Set of four sticks of canyon walnut or liickory, of slii^litly difierent 



Jengtbs, from llj to 13i inches; J i inch wide and 1 inch thick. One 



side Hat with incised desijins coni])osed of straight and oblique lines, 



the incised places being stained 

 red (Plate 30, fig. 3); opposite 

 sides rounded and plain. 



Tepeguana. Chihuahua, Mex- 

 ico. (Cat. No. Tots? Amer. 

 Mus. Nat. Hist., New York.) 

 Set of four sticks of pinon wood, 

 6^ iuc])es in length and | inch 

 square. These sticks have four 

 instead of two faces. Two oppo- 

 site sides are fat and unpainted. 

 One set of the other four sides are 

 uni)ainted, with incised lines filled 

 with red i)aint, as shown in tig. 06. 

 The sides opposite to these are 

 slightly rounded and painred red. 

 The top stick is marked with a 

 diagonal line across the middle, the 

 next with two straight transverse 

 lines near each end, the thiid is 

 ])lain, and the fourth has a single 

 transverse cut across the middle. 

 The i)receding Tarahumara and 

 Tepeguana s]>ecimens were all collected by Dr. Carl Lumholtz. He 

 informs me that the Tepeguana call the game In-tu ri ija-i \ zn-Ji | (la-i- 

 r/(-(/a-i, "game straight throwing." It is also generally known by the 

 S])anish name of Quince,^ or "Fifteen." 



He states that it is played by all the tribes in Chihuahua who live 

 in or near the Sierra, and by the Mexicans as well, but is not seen 

 south of the State of Durango. it is not known to the Cora or 

 Huichole in tlie State of Jalisco, or to tlie Tarasco of Michoacan.^ 



• Also in Frencli, Quinze, "a popular game with cards, in which the object is to 

 make fiftci'u points." The name Quince does not appear to be confined amoni,^ tlie 

 Indians to the game played with staves. Mr. Edward Palmer describes the follow- 

 ing game under the name of (Jiihis {qtiincei) among the Pima of Arizouii : "Any 

 number can play. A short, split stick is first thrown in a slanting direction, nnd 

 each one )>itches his arrow to see who can come nearest to it. Tlie one who does so 

 holds llie stick up while the others pitch. If the arrow touches the split stick and 

 does not catch, 1 he thrower loses nothing. If, however, the arrow remains in the 

 split stick it becomes the property of the holder. The game ends when one has all 

 the arrows or they tire out." 



2Mr. C. V. Hartman, who accompanied Dr. Lumholtz, informs me that Quince is 

 played with lour ilatteued reeds l)y the Zacjue Indians of the Rio Fuerte in Sinaloa. 

 Thoy call the game in their language ke-su-te. 



