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aud red, in bands of vaiyiug width. The arrangement of the colors 

 varies on each of the six slips. 



William Bollaert' describes a game of the Aymara Indians under the 

 name of ^xisa. 



It is one of great antiquity, and seems to be the only one of this sort. Pasu 

 means a hundred, as he wins who tirst gets that number. They play it with two 

 instruments, one a spread eagle of wood with ten holes on each side, being tens, 

 and are marked with pegs to denote every man's gettings; the other is a bone in the 

 manner of a die, cut with seven faces, one of which has a particular mark called 

 guat/aro {hntjaru). The other live tell according to the number of them, and the last 

 18 a blank. The way of playing is to toss up the bone, and the marks on the upper 

 surface are so many got. But the guayro goes for ten, and the like number is lost 

 if the blank side appearts. - 



Von Tschudi' describes the following game: 



Pitska, a game with small sticks which were marked with stripes of different 

 colors. It was generally played during the night of the death watch. Villagomez 

 believes that its name is derived from Pitska, the number "five" because of the five 

 fast days following the night of the death watch, a view which I do not accept. 

 Holguin mentions the game PUnka, and refers to Pitskana as a six-sided piece of 

 wood or small stick with which the game is played, only we do not know how it 

 was done but probably in a similar way to the game of dice. In Aymara its name 

 is also Phiska. 



4. Tab. Cairo, Egypt. 



Board, staves,^ aud meu. A game played upon a board divided into 

 rows of squares, with pieces or men, which are moved according to the 

 throws with four staves (fig. 119). 



The board, called a .seega (fig. 120), is divided into four rows of squares 

 called beyts (houses) each about 2 inches wide, or it consists of similar 

 rows of holes made in the ground or in a flat stone. The beyts are 

 usually seveu, nine, eleven, thirteen, or fifteen in each row. In each 

 heyt of one exterior row is placed a little piece of stone or dingy brick 

 about the size of a walnut, and in each beyt of the other exterior row 

 a -piece of red brick or tile, or sometimes pieces are placed ia only 



'Antiquarian, Ethnological and other Researches in New Granada, Equador, Pern, 

 and Chili, London, 1860, ]). 168. 



2Referringto the above account. Dr. Briuton tells me that the exact form, 2)asa, 

 as a numeral, does not appear to prevail in Aymara or Qiiichua. In Aymara we 

 have : 



pau or paya = 2 or twice 

 jnisi = 4 



paiaca = 100 



In Qnichna: 



pussae = 8 

 pachac = 100 



" I do not find f/naiiaro or hiiiiani in either tongue, although there are a number of 

 words close to them." 



•'Zeitriige zur Kentniss des alten Peru, Wein, 1891, p. 217. 



^Cat. No. 16896, Mas. Arch., Univ. Peun. Made in Streets of Cairo, Columbian 

 Exposition, Chicago, 1893. 



