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offerings in a basket tray with the money and silver articles offered at 

 the stakes. Prayer meal is sprinkled over the basket and also over 

 the other wagers with prayers to the Gods of War. rain-makers, 

 A'wonawil'ona, and the deceased gamesters. 



The game (which is not always the property of the one who plays) 

 is returned to the owner, if borrowed, and the leader carries all the 

 offerings made by his side, except the la'showanne, to Corn mountain 

 in a small corn-husk package, and deposits them at the shrine of the 

 younger God of War. He places the la'showanne in his medicine 

 box, and on his return from Corn mountain carries the gaming ball 

 of the rain priest to him and at the same time presents a string of 

 precious beads large enough to encircle the left thumb, considered the 



Fig. 15 — Implements used iu hi)'kliim<inne. 



lucky one in this game. The rain priest adds these beads to those 

 which wrap his et'tone (see Rain priesthood), 



Ho'llarnonni. The implements of this game are a ball of yucca 

 ribbons and two slender sticks, each sharpened at one end and passed 

 through a piece of corncob having two hawk plumes inserted in the 

 other end (see figure 15), The yucca ball is placed on the ground and 

 the sticks are thrown at it fi'om a short distance. The object is to pen- 

 etrate the ball. If the first player strikes the ball, the stick is allowed 

 to remain in place until the other party plays. If l)oth sticks strike the 

 ball, it is a draw. If the second stick fails to strike, it remains where 

 it falls, and the first player removes his stick from the ball and throws 

 aarain. The onew^ho strikes W\c \ya\\ the sfi'eater number of times wins 



