124 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS [ETH. ANN. 24 ~ 
for the priest’s house in the south. Second, a game played with four little 
mounds of sand, in one of which a small round stone was hidden. This was 
played for the priest’s house in the east. The games were then repeated in the 
same order, commencing with wash’kasi for the house in the zenith, the game 
with the six blocks for the house in the nadir, and, finally, the third in order, 
that with the four sticks with hollow ends, for all the people of the tribe. 
Mr Charles F. Lummis informed the writer that he had witnessed 
the game with the staves or blocks in the following pueblos belong- 
ing to this stock: Acoma, Cochiti, Laguna, E] Rito (Laguna colony), 
and San Felipe. 
KIOWAN STOCK 
Koaowa. Oklahoma. (Cat. no. 16535, 16536, Free Museum of Sci- 
ence and Art, University of Pennsylvania.) 
Set of four sticks of willow wood, called ahl (wood), 10 inches in 
length, five-eighths of an inch in width, and three-eighths of an 
inch in thickness (figure 131), nearly hemispheric in section, with 
one side flat. 
Three of the sticks have a red groove running down the middle 
on the flat side, and one has a blue stripe. The last has a burnt 
design on the reverse, as shown in the figure, while the backs of the 
others are plain. The flat sides are also burnt, with featherlike 
markings at the ends. 
A cotton cloth, 41 by 484 inches, marked as shown in figure 133, 
called the ahl cloth; a flat bowlder, called the ahl stone; two 
awls, sharpened wires, with wooden handles, 62 inches in length; 
eight sticks, 8? inches in length, to be used as counters (figure 
132). 
These objects were collected by Col. H. L. Scott, U. S. Army, who 
furnished the following description of the game, under the title of 
zohn ahl (zohn, creek; ahl, wood), commonly known as the ahl game: 
The ahl cloth is divided into points by which the game is counted. The 
curved lines are called knees, because they 
are like the knees of the players. The space 
between the parallel lines 1 and 1 and 20 
and 20 is called the creek, and the corre- 
sponding spaces between the parallel lines 
at right angles are called the dry branches. 
The sticks are held by the players in one 
Fig. 131. Stick dice; length, 10 inches; hand and struck downward, so that their 
Kiowa Indians; eat oms: cat. no. ends come on the ahl stone with consider- 
UC ARS Oe ema me eng able force, If all the sticks fall with the 
: sides without grooves uppermost, the play 
is called white, and counts 10. If all the grooved sides come uppermost, it is 
ealled red, and counts 5. Both of these throws entitle the player to another 
throw. If one grooved side is uppermost, it counts 1; two grooved sides, 2, 
and three grooved sides, 3. The game is played by any even number of girls 
or women (never by men or boys), half on one side the line N §S and half on 
