88 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS  [TH. ann. 24 
the back, flat on the face. One of the set of four sticks is distinguished from 
the remaining three and represents a man, the other three being women. The 
sticks are dropped and the points counted as follows: Four faces down, sticks 
lying parallel, counts 10; four faces down, pair of crosses, 10; four faces down, 
odd stick crossing the others, 10; 
four faces up, pair of crosses, 20; 
four faces up, odd stick crossing 
others, 20; three faces down, 
one crossed by the odd stick, face 
a upward, 26; three faces up, one 
Fic. 8. Stick dice for ha-ee-go-hay; length, 23 inches; crossed b ‘alc 
y the odd stick, face 
White Mountain Apache Indians, Arizona; cat. no. ie 
61248, Field Columbian Museum. 
down, 26; three faces up, crossed 
by the odd stick, face down, 39; 
three faces up. two crossed by the odd stick, face up or down, 39; four faces up, 
sticks lying parallel, 40; three faces up, one face down, lying parallel, 52; three 
faces down, one face up, lying parallel, 52; three faces up, one down, crossing 
one another six times, 62. 
Wurre Mountain Apacuer. White river, Arizona. 
Mr Albert B. Reagan furnished the following account of the 
Apache stick dice game in a communication to the Bureau of Amer- 
ican Ethnology in 1901: 
“This game is usually played by women only, occupying with it their leisure 
hours. They bet on it such things as beads, dress materials, and other objects 
of small value, sometimes 
even money. When money PLAYt K 
is bet it is put under the GOBCdISE 
stone on which the sticks 62) aN 
are cast. In preparing the Ny RZ 
field a spot of ground is ley- 9) ©’ 
= ; Y ray 
eled and a small flat stone a) oO 
placed in the center. Other O ) 
stones are then piled around Oo O 
this stone to form a circle  PLavER S oS Cpptaver 
[figure 86] 34 feet in diam- oO O 
eter, with four openings, 10 D G 
stones being placed in each oO CO 
quarter of the circle, the SS © 
openings corresponding with ea Se 
the northeast, southeast, wee. Sv 
southwest, and northwest. OPQGV 
The stones, which are FEMME 
picked up inthe immediate F16- 86. Circuit for stick dice; White Mountain Apache 
sera Indians, Arizona; from drawing by Albert B. Reagan. 
vicinity of the playground, 
are of various shapes and sizes. The stones being laid, a stick is placed in the 
opening at the northeast to indicate that this is the starting point. In counting, 
a player moves his counting-stick as many stones from the starting point as he 
has points to count, putting his marker in the space just beyond the last stone 
counted, unless that count should end in one of the four openings, in which case 
he puts it in the next preceding space. The stones in each section are num- 
bered or named. Those in the two sections on the right of the starting point 
are numbered from 1 on to the right, and those on the left of the starting 
point in the same way toward the left. 
