CULIN] DICE GAMES: WHITE MOUNTAIN APACHE 87 
Warre Mountarn Aracue. Arizona. (Field Columbian Museum.) 
Cat. no. 61247. Three wooden staves (figure 83), 10% inches in 
length, flat on one side, painted yellow, with green band on flat 
face. 
These specimens were collected by Rev. Paul S. Mayerhotf, who 
gives the following account of the game under the name of tsaydithl, 
or throw-sticks: 
This is a woman’s game and is played with great ardor. The staves are 
three in number, from § to 10 inches long and flat on one side. 
The playground is a circle [figure 84] about 5 feet in diameter. The center 
of this circle is formed by a flat rock of any convenient size, generally from 
,8 to 10 inches in diameter. On the circumference forty stones are arranged 
in sets of ten, to be used as counters. Not less than two or more than four 
persons can participate in the game at one time. 
In playing, the sticks are grasped in the hand and thrown on end upon the 
rock in the center with force enough to make them rebound. As they fall, 
flat or round face upward, the throw counts from 1 to 10, as follows: Three 
round sides up counts 10 points, called yiih; two round sides up, one flat, 1 or 
2 points, called tlay; one round side up, two flat, 3 points, called tah geé; 
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Fig. 83. Stick dice for tsay-dithl; length, 10; inches; White Mountain Apache Indians, Arizona; 
cat. no. 61247, Field Columbian Museum. , 
Fic. 84. Circuit for stick dice; White Mountain Apache Indians, Arizona. 
three flat sides up, 5 points, called dagay. Should one of the players, in mak- 
ing her count, continue from her set of counters to the adjoining set of her 
opponent’s and strike the place marked by the opponent’s tally marker, it 
throws the opponent’s count out of the game, and she must start anew. Who- 
ever first marks 40 points wins. 
Cat. no. 61248. Four sticks (figure 85), 23 inches in length, the 
round sides painted, two alike, with four diagonal black stripes, 
and one with a broad red band in the middle and red ends. The 
first three have flat reverses, painted red, and the fourth, with 
the red band, a black reverse. 
Another set, cat. no. 61249, has three with round sides decorated 
alike with alternate red and black lines, and one with diagonal black 
lines. The first three have red reverses, the fourth a black reverse. 
These specimens were collected by Rev. Paul S. Mayerhoff, who 
gives the following account of the game under the name of haeegohay, 
drop sticks: 
This game is played by both sexes together. For it there is no preparation 
of a playground. The staves are four sticks 18 to 24 inches in length, round on 
