CHESS AND PLAVING-CAliDS. 



779 



Zt'ni. New Mexico. (Cat, No. r»!)L>77, U.S N.M.) 



Set of four sticks, (lA iiuilies in length and .\ inch in width, made of 

 split cane. The inner sides painted like the precetling, and the rounded 

 sides scratched with cross marks, as shown in iig. 108. Collected by 

 Col. James Stevenson. 



Zu.xi. New Mexico. (Cat. No. 60278, U.S.N.M.) 



Set of four sticks, G inches in length and .1 in incli width, made of 

 split cane. The inner sides painted like the preceding, and the rounded 

 sides marked with cuts, as shown in tig. 109. This set, with the one pre- 

 C( ding, was intended for actual use, and is made of heavy cane, with 



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Fig. 109. 

 SET OK CANES FOR SHO'-LI-WE. 



(Obverse.) 

 Lenglli, 6 inches. 

 Zuni Indiana, New Mexico. 



Cat. No. 69-278, U.S.X.M. 



the inside charred at the edges, and unlike the sacrificial sets, which 

 consist of common marsh reed. Mr. Cashing has kindly placed in my 

 hands the following hitherto unpublished account of tiho'-li-ice: ' 



The game of Sho'-Ii-tve is certainly the most distinctive of any practiced by tlie 

 Zuni Indians. It is not confined to them, but forms of it are found among all the 



' Mr. Owens described Sho'-li-ire in the paper referred to in a preceding note 

 (p. 773). The names of the four sticks he gives as follows: The one who.se concave 

 side is entirely black, quin, the Zuni for black; the one with one black end, paih-io; 

 with two black ends, kd-ha-lira; and the one with a black center, ath-lu-a. He 

 figures two of the reeds, and the manner of holding the sticks, which he describes 

 as thrown with the right hand against a suspended blanket and allowed to fall on 

 another blanket. " Two of the pieces belong to each man and are companions. There 

 is a pool with twelve markers, and he who wins the markers wins the game. The 

 winner takes the twelve markers uji 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 everything are staked upon the throw. 



