34 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS _ [E&TH. Ann. 24 
The games on the altar are as follows: Set of four cane dice (fig- 
ure 284) ; set of four long cane dice (figure 2); set of four wooden 
cylinders for hidden-ball game (figure 493) ; two corncob feather darts 
with ball made of yucca leaves (figure 549); sticks for kicked-billet 
game (figure 913). 
From the account of the altars of the twin War Gods among the 
Hopi given by Doctor Fewkes,* it would appear that the games are 
absent, but we find them upon the altars in the Flute ceremony. For 
example, on the altar of the Drab Flute (Macilefiya) from Oraibi, 
as reconstructed in the Field Columbian Museum at Chicago, four 
little flowerlike cups, yellow, green, red, and white, rest upon the floor 
at the base of the effigy. Between them are two wooden cylinders, 
painted black, corresponding to the kicked sticks of the Zuni race 
game. A corn-husk ring, tied to a long stick, precisely like one used 
in certain forms of the ring-and-dart game, stands on each side of 
the principal figure.” 
In addition, stuck on sand mounds at the right and left, are artifi- 
cial trees or plants covered with flowers. These flowers are wooden 
gaming cups, 16 in number—4 white, 4 green, + red, and 4 yellow. 
The four cups are seen again, surmounted with birds, resting upon 
cloud symbols on the Hopi Oaq6l altar (figure 1). 
In general, games appear to be played ceremonially, as pleasing 
to the gods, with the object of securing fertility, causing rain, giving 
and prolonging life, expelling demons, or curing sickness. My 
former conclusion as to the divinatory origin of games, so far as 
America is concerned, was based upon Mr Cushing’s suggestion that 
ing the image and the objects before it are offerings from the Bow, or War, society and 
certain members of the Deer clan. They are displayed as they appear in the house of 
the director of the Bow society, where they are set up previous to being deposited at the 
shrine of Ahaiyuta on Uhana Yiialliiné, Wool mountain, southwest of the pueblo of Zuni. 
1. Carved figure of Ahaiyuta, a very old original, collected by Col. James Stevenson, 
redecorated. 
2. Shield of Ahaiyuta; hoop and network of cotton. 
2. Symbolic feather bow and arrow. 
3, 3. Ceremonial staffs. 
4. Symbolic war club. 
5. Ceremonial tablet, with symbol of crescent moon, sun, morning star, lightning, and 
house of Ahaiyuta. 
6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Games supposed to have originated with the gods of war, and made by 
the Deer clan. s 
11. Plumes of offerings made by two members of the Bow society. 
12. Four plume offerings of a member of the Deer clan. 
13. Sacred meal bowl containing prayer meal. 
14. Red bread, food offering to the god of war. 
15. Turquoise and shell-bead offerings in corn husks. 
16. Feathered staff, offering to the god of war by the Bow society. Included in this 
case, but presented at a different ceremonial. 
17. Oraibi basket for holding the prayer plumes afterward deposited in connection with 
the ceremony. 
18. Old handled yase and medicine plume box, personal property of the director of the 
Bow society. 
«Minor Hopi Festivals. American Anthropologist, n. s., v. 4, p. 487, 1902. 
>It is carried by two girls in the public ceremony on the ninth day, the ring being 
tossed with the stick. 
