786 HEPOKT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 



liino- of the atlatl (fig. 114) for the attachment of finger loops. In the 

 opinion of the writer, the Zufii canes may be regarded as symbolic of 

 the atlatl and three arrows, such as are seen carried by the gods in 



Fig. 114. 



HANDLE OF ATLATL SHOWING CROSSED WKAPPLNG FOR ATTACHMENT OF FINGER LOOPS. 



Cliff dwelling, Maucos Canyou, Colorado 



Museum of Archa?olo[jy, University of Pennsylvania. 



Mexican i)ictures. From the evidence afforded by the implements 

 employed, the games with tossed canes, staves, etc., I conclude that 

 they must all be referred to the region of cane arrows and the atlatl, 

 probably Mexico and the southwestern United States. 



A summary of the games described in the j (receding pages is con- 

 tained in the following tables. The games of this class 1 have found 

 recorded as existing among some sixty-one tribes, comprised in twenty- 

 three linguistic stocks, described or collected by some seventy-five 

 observers, extending trom the year 1034 down to the present, and rep- 

 resented by some ninety specimens from forty-one tribes, eighteen 

 stocks, and thirty-nine collectors in the five principal American muse- 

 ums of ethnology: Washington, New York, Chicago, Cambridge, and 

 Philadelphia, and the hands of five individuals. The older accounts 

 of the game among the Indians of Mexico are not included in this 

 enumeration. 



