CHESS AND PLAYING-CARDS. 



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found among- the ruins. Its antiquity is attested by the presence of 

 such disks among tlie remains in the cliff houses. Four such disks 

 from Maucos Canyon, in the University Museum, are shown in fig. 188.^ 



Fig. 189. 

 THE GAME OP TO-TO-L6s-ri. 



Moki Indians, New Mexico. 



After an unpulilisheil drawing liy Dr. J. Walter Fewkes. 



Dr. J. Walter Fewkes^ has described a somewhat similar game as 

 existing among the Moki Indians of jS"ew Mexico under the name of 

 To-to-l6s-]n. It can be played by two or more parties. A rectangular 



'Disks roughly shaped from fragments of earthenware vessels were found by Mr. 

 Clarence B. Moore in mounds of the Georgia Coast (Jour. Academy of Natural 

 Sciences, Phila., XI), of which specimens contributed by him are contained in the 

 Mnsoum of Arcbteology of the University of Pennsylvania (Cat. Nos. 20160-20162). 

 They vary from 11 to 2 inches in diameter. Similar pottery disks, some perforated, 

 are found in many localities in the United States. Mr. G. E. Laidlaw writes that 

 large numbers of disks of stone and pottery are found in the ash beds of ancient 

 village sites in Ontario, Canada, cast and northeast of Lake Simcoe. They arc sel- 

 dom bored, and the pottery disks, which range from 1 inch to 2 inches in diameter, 

 are made from shards, and have the original curve of the pot. They bear no mark- 

 ings, and in a great majority of cases the edges are not ground smooth. He suggests 

 their probable use in games. Pottery disks, all made from shards, some with central 

 perforations, are found in Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina, and doubtless other South 

 American sites. 



-Journal of American Ethnology and Archa?ology, II, p. 159. 



