768 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 



He also states tliis game is usually played by the women, and that 

 the beaver teeth are shaken in the hand and thrown down.' 



YUMAN STOCK. 



CocoPA. (Cat. No. 76105, U.S.N.M.) 



Set of four sticks of willow'^ wood, 8 inches long, about Ij^ inches 

 broad, and ^ inch thick (fig. 95). Flat on one side, which is uniformly 

 marked lengthwise in the center with a band of red paint about .] inch 

 in width. Opposite, rounded and unpaiuted. Collected by Mr. Edward 

 Palmer. 



Fig. 95. 



SET OF .STAVES I'OR GAME. 



Lengtii, 8 inches. 

 Cocopa ludians. 



Cat. No. 76IB.'i, U.S.N.M. 



Havasupat. Arizona. 



Mr. G. Wharton James has furnished the writer with the following 

 account: 



Squatted around a circle of small stones, tlie circle having an opening at a certain 

 jtortiou of its circumference, called the yam-se-liyalb-ye-ka, aud a large flat stone in 

 the centre called tad-he-che-ka, the Havasupai play the game called Hue-ta-qiiee-che- 

 ka. Any number of players can engage in the game. . 



The players are chosen into sides. The first phxyer begins the game by holiling 

 ill his hand three pieces of short stick, white on one side and red on the other. 

 These sticks are called ioh-bv-ya, and take the place of our dice. They are (lung 

 rapidly upon the central stoue, tail-he- che-ka, aud as they fall counts are made as 

 follows : 



S whites up =10 



2 whites, 1 red up := 2 



2 reds, 1 white up= 3 



3 reds :==; 5 



' The Northwest Coast, or Three Years' Residence in Washington Territory, New 

 York, 1857, p. 158. 

 - Salix amygdaloides. 



