46 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS | [ETH. ANN. 24 
introduction, the dice game was one of the games sacred to the War 
God in Zuni, and the cane dice were sacrificed upon his shrine. Fig- 
ure 2 represents a set of such sacrificial dice, collected by the writer 
from the shrine of the War God on Corn mountain, Zuni, in 1902. 
They consist of four split canes. 
15 inches in length, painted black 
on the outside, and bound in 
pairs, one fitting into the other, 
to form across. The middle and 
two ends are tied with cotton 
cord, to which down feathers are 
attached. These canes appear to 
have been used in a different form 
of the dice game from that de- 
scribed in the present volume as 
Fic. 2. Sacrificial gaming canes from shrine played ao Auto 
of War God, Zui Indians, Zufi, New Mex- Dr J. Walter Fewkes* men- 
ce fneth 5 mes a oe am Free tions a bundle of gaming reeds 
Pennsylvania. being placed with other objects. 
upon the Tewa kiva altar (plate 
m1) erected/ at the winter solstice at Hano, and in a letter® to the 
writer says that the markings on these canes resemble very closely 
those on the set (figure 200) which he found in the old altar at Chevlon. 
A comparison of the dice games of the Indians throughout the 
United States led the writer at first to refer them all to canes, such 
as are employed in the Zuni game 
of sholiwe. These canes in their 
original form consist of split arrow 
shaftments, and are marked both 
inside and out with bands or rib- CX x] 4 
bonings corresponding with the 
x 
markings on the arrows of the : ———— — 
four world quarters. Many of the U ae 
wooden dice, which the Zuni call 
“wood canes,” bear an incised mark PET EF. = 
on the inner side, corresponding : 
to the inner concave side of the Ae pacman erie UCSC 
canes. The chevron pattern on the _ ico; cat.no. 16543, Free Museum of Science 
outer face of many of the stayes, 7M 
agrees with, and appears to be derived from, the crosshatching on the 
sholiwe. When the staves are differentiated by marks, these, too, 
agree more or less closely with those on the canes. It will be observed 
that in many of the sets one of the dice is distinguished from the 
others by marks on the face, or convex side, as well as on the reverse. 
«American Anthropologist, n. s., v. 1, p. 272, 1899. » January 27, 1899. 
