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Wurre Mountain Apacur. East fork of White river, Arizona. 
(Field Columbian Museum.) 
Cat. no. 68819. Three wooden staves, 14 inches in length, painted 
alike, blue on the flat face and rounded backs yellow. 
Cat. no. 68822. Three wooden staves, 114 inches in length, with 
incised cross lines, blue and red in the middle of the flat face, the 
rounded backs plain. 
Cat. no. 68821. Three wooden staves, 124 inches in length, with 
diagonal incised black line across the middle of the flat face, the 
rounded backs plain. 
Cat. no. 68824. Three wooden staves, 9 inches in length, with the 
middle of the flat sides blackened, and one stave with incised 
diagonal line in the middle, the rounded backs plain. 
These specimens were collected by Mr Charles L. Owen, who 
describes them as used in the game of tsa-st¢l. 
Arizona. (Cat. no. 152696, United States National Museum.) 
Set of three sticks of hazel wood, 8 inches in length, three-fourths 
of an inch wide, and about three-eighths of an inch in thickness, 
flat on one side, with a diagonal black band across the middle, the 
other rounded and unpainted. They show marks of use. 
These were collected by Dr Edward Palmer, and were deseribed by 
Fig. 88. Fig. 89 
Fic. 58. Stick dice; length, 9} inches; White Mountain Apache Indians, Fort Apache, Arizona; 
cat. no. 18619, Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
Fic. 89. Manner of holding stick dice; White Mountain Apache Indians, Arizona; from draw- 
ing by the late Capt. C. N. B. Macauley, U.S. Army. 
Captain C. N. B. Macauley, U. S. Army, as used in a game played by 
women in a circle? of forty stones divided in four tens with a division 
to each ten, and having a large flat rock placed in the middle. 
Four or six can play. Two sides are formed of equal numbers, and two sets of 
sticks are used. The players kneel behind the rock circle. The first player takes 
the sticks in one hand, rounded sides out [figure 89],and slams them end first on the 
rock. From this is derived the name of the game, sé-tich-ch, bounce-on-the-rock.¢ 
*A set of sticks (fig. 88) made of a variety of the prickly ash, 94 inches in length, 
but otherwise identical with the above, is contained in the Free Museum of Science and 
Art of the University of Pennsylvania (cat. no. 18619), and was collected by Capt. 
c. N. B. Macauley, U. S. Army. 
® Doctor Palmer says a square; Captain Macauley, a circle. 
¢ Capt. John G. Bourke gaye the Apache name of this game to the writer as tze-chis, 
stone, or zse-tilth, wood, the words referring to the central stone and the staves. The 
circle of stones is called, he stated, tze-nasti, stone circle. Dr Edward Palmer gives 
the name of the game as satill. 
