129 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS  [eru. ann. 24 
is determined by the manner of the fall, and he then moves his horses up as 
many stones as he makes; if he gets around to the starting point first, he wins. 
There are two ways of playing—one is called pass, the other enter. In pass, 
if one makes a score which lands him exactly in the starting, or east, door, he 
must go around again until be lands in the proper place. In enter, if A should 
land his horse on the top 
Roane poor of his opponent’s horse, he 
kills him, and he goes back 
OO} (CO 2 
aoe || SOR to the beginning, but if A 
O O reaches the starting point 
2, first, he falls in and wins, 
O even if the number of stones 
ic made should carry him be- 
e Est poor ~=0yond. The count otherwise 
CENTRE STONE O is just the same in both. 
O The blocks may fall within 
on or without the ring. If one 
% O block should fall on edge, 
% 0° not leaning, then the player 
Sic | joc lays it on the center stone 
SouTH DOOR and strikes it with another 
billet, but if the notched 
billet is lying face down, it 
must not be used to strike 
with: when the notched block stands on edge it must be picked up and thrown 
on the center stone. 
The count is as follows: Two black sides up, 
with one white notched, 15 stones; three white 
sides up, 10 (when a player makes 10 or 15 he 
may strike again, and as many times as he 
makes these large numbers) ; two blacks up and 
one white, not notched, 3; two white and one 
black up, 2; three blacks up, 5. 
Fig. 128. Circuitfor stick dice; Keres Indians, Laguna, New 
Mexico; from sketch by Dr C, E. Lukens. 
Keres. Laguna, New Mexico. (Cat. no. 
38500, Free Museum of Science 
and Art, University of Pennsyl- 
vania. ) 
Three flat blocks (figure 129), 34 inches 
in length, painted black on one side 
the other plain. Fia. 129. Stick dice; length, 3: 
One has 15 notches on the edge of the ee ns ee 
white side. Made for the writer by a Museum of Science and Art, 
Laguna youth, at the Pan-American Ex-  U™ver=ty of Pennsylvania: 
position, Buffalo, 1903. He describes them as used in the game of 
patol, or, in their own language, wasokutz. 
Laguna, New Mexico. 
Capt. George H. Pradt, a resident of the pueblo of Laguna for 
many years, writes as follows: 
The game played with a circle of small stones is called, by the Keres Indians, 
