120 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS  [xrn. ann. 24 
Both of the above were made for the writer in 1904 by James H. 
Miller, an Acoma Indian living at Zuni, who furnished the following 
particulars: 
The game is called bish-i, and the four canes receive the following names: 
Stick marked at one end, bish-i, the same as the game, after a great gambler 
of the olden time; stick marked in the mid- 
GZ dle, tsoi-yo, woman; stick marked at both ends, 
Rieag gosh, the name of a man; stick marked entire 
length, tel-i, woman. 
Cea y The first and last two are paired, as if part- 
Fia.124. Stick dice; length,5sinches; 2°"S- In playing, a basket, o-ta-ni, covered with 
Keres Indians, Acoma, New Mex- buckskin, is hung concave side down and the 
ico; cat. no. 4972, Brooklyn Insti- canes tossed against it, so that they fall on a 
tute Museum. blanket spread beneath it on the ground. In 
throwing the canes three of them are slid, concave side up, one inside of the 
other, with the top one projecting and one or the other of the first two crossed 
beneath them, as in Zuni. 
The counts, which resemble those in Zuni, although, according to 
Miller’s statement not precisely the same, 
are extremely complicated. Among them 
is the following: 
Three convex sides up and the stick marked 
in the middle or at one end concay, side up, 
and crossed beneath others, counts 3. 
The game is counted with twelve grains 
of white corn. They blow their breath on the 
canes before tossing them. The game was in- 
vented by Gau-pot. He was the greatest of 
gamblers, and lost everything. He played 
against the sun and was beaten, and _ lost 
his eyes and became blind. Bish-i is played in F¥6-125. Circuit for stick dice; Keres 
winter in the estufas, and there is a society, Jndiens, Acoma, New ee 
the Bish-i society, devoted to it. Women don’t play and are not even allowed to 
touch the sticks. Acoma Indians regard it as one of their original games and 
not as borrowed from Zuni. 
Keres. Acoma, New Mexico. (Cat. no. 4972, Brooklyn Institute 
Museum. ) 
Set of three stick dice (figure 124), 54 inches in Yength, black on one 
side and plain white on the other. 
They were made for the writer by James H. Miller. He gave the 
name as owasakut. The counts are as follows: 
Three black counts 10; three white, 5; two white, 2; one white, 3. The 
game is counted around a circle of thirty stones, yow-wu-ni [figure 125], with 
little sticks called horses. There are three openings in the stone circle, which 
are called tsi-a-ma, door. 
Acoma, New Mexico. 
The Acoma Indian, James H. Miller, described also the following 
game to the writer under the name of inaani, to throw up: 
