148 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS | [ETH. Ann. 24 
number to count to @ must be thrown by the sticks. When a horse is on a 
pocket adjoining a, a 2 throw is considered out. The object of the game is to 
earry all the horses around the pockets and out again at a, the first player 
succeeding in this being declared the winner. 
Paraco. Cahili, Arizona. (Cat. no. S674, 59, Rijks Ethnographi- 
sches Museum, Leiden.) 
Set of four sticks (figure 168), 44 inches in length, rounded on one 
side, flat, unmarked on the other. Catalogued under the name 
of quince as a woman’s game. Collected by Dr H. F. C. ten 
Kate, jr, in 1888. 
Fig. 168. Stick dice; length, 4) inches; Papago Indians, Arizona; cat. no. S674, 59, Rijks Ethno- 
graphisches Museum, Leiden. 
—— Pima county, Arizona. (Cat. no. 174443, United States Na- 
tional Museum. ) 
Astragalus of bison (figure 169). Collected by Dr W J McGee, 
who described it as used in a game called tanwan. 
The game is played by two persons, who sit facing each other, four or five feet 
apart. The bone is twirled into the air out of the 
thumb and forefinger, the back of the hand being held 
upward. The position in which it falls on the ground 
controls the count in the game. So long as the player 
succeeds in throwing the pitted side, or cow hoof, as 
it is called, upward he retains possession of the bone, 
Fia. 169, Astragalus of bi- and with each throw wins one bean from a_ prear- 
son used as die; Papago Tanged number equally divided between the players. 
Indians, Pima county, The sides do not count in the play, and the thrower 
Arizona; cat. no. 174443, may play again and again without forfeiting the bone 
United States National = 2, = 
Woseum. until he throws the flat side, opposite the cow hoof, 
upward, when the bone goes to his opponent to throw, 
with the same conditions. The winning of the entire number of an opponent’s 
counters constitutes a game won. 
Pima. Arizona. (United States National Museum.) 
Cat. no. 27842. Set of four sticks of willow? wood, 9 inches in 
length, three-fourths of an inch in breadth, and one-fourth of an 
inch in thickness (figure 170); flat on one side, which is incised 
with transverse and diagonal lines filled in with black paint; the 
opposite side rounded and painted red. 
Cat. no. 27848. Set of four sticks of willow* wood, 82 inches in 
length, three-fourths of an inch in breadth, and one-fourth of an 
« Salix amygdaloides. 
