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nes.s of doing- wrong, while, on tlie other hand, the rain pri(>sts and 

 theiirgists have the satisfaction of realizing that they are propitiating 

 their gods, not only for their own good l)ut for the good of all; not 

 only for their own people but for all the world. 



rildiih>lo'-ine--hiq'>leriU')ifs ofthe game. Four cups of ([uaking asy)on 

 wood, 12i inches high, 2f inches across at the opening, and slightly 

 less than 2i inches at the bottom, are hollowed to the depth of 2^ inches 

 to acconnuodate a stone l)all. There is a stone disk painted white on 

 one side and black on the other, and 106 straws. The cups are painted 

 white with kaolin. The bottom of each cup is covered with black paint, 

 which extends up the side U inches. This paint, which is said to 

 have come from the undermost world, is first mixed with water and 

 then a medicine is added. Powdered 'suhapa (micaceous hematite) is 

 also added. The hematite bears the same name as the fixed stars and 

 is referred to as the star medicine. The finger is dipped into the white 

 paint and touched to the gaming ball, which is afterward wrapped in 

 cotton cord, or the entire ball is painted white. The Zunis say that 

 the game originally had instead of the cups four deer carved of wood, 

 with an opening in the side of each large enough to contain the ball. 



I'yjinkolo'we is played only in January, February, and ]\Iarch, but 

 mostly in February, and when once begun nuist l)e continued without 

 intermission to the close. In February, 1904, a game was begun the 

 evening of the 10th and continued through the 12th. When a man 

 wishes to play a game of i'yankolo'we he calls upon a rain priest of 

 either the West, East, Zenith, or Nadir (the other rain priests have noth- 

 ing to do with this game), at sunset and makes known his wish. The 

 rain priest asks him wdiere his he'we (wafer bread) is, his precious beads, 

 his prayer meal, and tells him to return at night with these things. 

 The rain priest then goes to a storage room and brings out an ancient 

 u'linne (gaming ball). After his wife or some female member of the 

 family has swept the floor of the inner room, the rain priest makes, 

 with prayer meal, four parallel lines running north and south by the 

 north wall of the room, the length of these lines measuring from the 

 tip of the middle finger to the tip of the thumb, with fingers extended. 

 He then places the ball midway on the most western line and says 

 to it: '• You will remain here through the night." Then he gives to 

 the man some wafer bread in a piece of cloth, a corn- husk cigarette 

 of native tobacco (Nicotiana attenuata), a sack containing- powdered 

 te'na^sidi (mythical medicine plant), and a piece of banded gypsum, 2^ 

 or 3 inches "in length, slender, round, and tapering. When the time 

 for the game has been decided upon by the rain priest and player, a 

 memberof the governor's start' calls from the house top that the game 

 of i'yankolo'we will be played the following night, giving the name of 

 the leader, and another group is then formed to pla\'. The players are 

 not confined to particular clans, ki'wi'siwe," or sections of the village. 



a See Ki'wi'snve and their functions. 



