CHESS AND PLAYING-CARDS. 



773 



ZuNi. New Mexico. (Cat. No. ()<)()03, U.S.N.M.) 



Set of tliree sticks of basswood' 4| inches in length, 1|^' incli in 

 bieadtli, and i\ inch iu thickness (lij;-. 102). P'Uit and painted light red 

 on one side; opposite rounded and jjainted in tria ngu hi r designs in red 

 and black, the j^attern being double that on the preceding: Cat. Nos. 

 69340, G9287, and 09281. 



Fig. 101. 



SET OF BLOCKS FOR OAME OF TA'-SHO'-LI-WE. 



Length, 5J inclies. 

 Znni, New Mexico. 



Cat. No. 692SI, U.S.N.M. 



The preceding Zunian staves were collected by Col. Jarnes Steven- 

 son. They were all used, as I am informed, by Mr. Cashing, for the 

 game of Ta'-sho'-U-ice, or " wooden canes '' (one of the seven sacred 

 games of Zufii), which he described to me as follows: 



Ta'-s}io'-U-ice- is played accordiug to the throws of three wooden blocks, painted red 

 on one side and black upon the other, around a circle of stones placed upon the sand. 

 Two or four players enj^age, using two or fonr splints as markers, and advancing, 

 according to their throws around the circle, which is divided into forty parts by 



' Deal boards, imported into Znni. 



- Ta'-sho'-U-we was desi^ribcd by .lohn G. Owens ("Some Games of the Znni") in the 

 Popular Science Monthly for May, 1891. He gives the name of the central stone as 



