96 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS _ [etu. ann. 24 
thad-sata the Bat said: “Leave the game to me. I have made 
thirteen chips that are white on both sides. I will hide myself in the 
ceiling and when our champion throws up his chips I will grasp them 
and throw down my-chips instead.” The Bat assisted as he had 
promised the son of Hastsehogan, and the latter soon won the game. 
Navano. WKeams Canyon, Arizona. 
Mr A. M. Stephen describes the following game in his unpub- 
lished manuscript : 
Ta-ka sost-siti, seven cards, played with seven small chips about 1 ineh in 
diameter, one red, bi-tu, on one side and marked with a cross, the other side 
blackened; six black on one side, hot-djile, and uncolored on the other side. 
Thrown up from the hands, when one white side comes up, the one who has been 
shaking the dice wins, called jin-nai; when only one black disk is exposed, 
tai-klign; when the red one and all the rest white, h6-ka, a winning card for 
several amounts, it may be seven times the stakes doubled; when all are black 
except the red, it is called hot-dje-bi-tci. An even number of players are sought. 
It is a man’s game; but women are also found to play it, though only under 
protest from the men. 
Chin Lee, Arizona. (Brooklyn Institute Museum.) 
Cat. no. 3622. Seven wooden dice (figure 98a), flat on one side and 
7 @ rounded on the 
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no. Seven 
am wooden dice (figure 
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above, but circular; 
Fig.98a,b,c. Three setsof wooden dice; lengths, $, 14inches; ie er, il ae 
Navaho Indians, Arizona; cat. no. 3622, 3623, and 3624, aiameter, nen. 
Brooklyn Institute Museum. Cat. no. 3624. Seven 
wooden dice (figure 98¢), similar to the above, but oval; diame- 
ter, 14 inches. 
These dice are all painted black on the flat side, with six unpainted 
and one painted red on the convex side; made by a medicine man 
named Little Singer, who gave the name as dakha tsostsedi, seven 
cards. 
Rey. Berard Haile describes the preceding game in a personal 
letter : 
Da’ka tsostse’di, cards seven times or seventh card. There are four sets of 
chips of seven each. One set is flat on both sides, and square; another has round 
corners; another is flat below and round above; and the other set tapers to a 
point on both sides, with rounded back and a ridge in the center. Each of these 
sets has six chips, colored white or natural on one side, the other side being 
black. The seventh one is red and white and is called bichi’, red, and counts 
more than all the rest. These chips were made of oak or of a certain species 
of wood easily polished after removing the bark, perhaps mahogany. The 
players usually carried four sets with them, together with a basket, in a pouch, 
