CULIN] DICE GAMES: TEPEHUAN 153 
Terenuan. Talayote, near Nabogame, Chihuahua, Mexico. (Cat. 
no. 7?;, American Museum of Natural History.) 
Set of four ash-wood sticks, 184 inches in length, three-fourths of an 
inch broad, and one-eighth of an inch thick, marked on one side 
with incised lines smeared with red paint (figure 178a) ; reverse, 
plain. 
Chihuahua, Mexico. (Cat. no. ,%5,, American Museum of 
Natural History.) 
Set of four ash-wood sticks, identical with the preceding, except that 
they are 16% inches in length (figure 1780). 
Fic. 178. Stick dice; lengths: a, 18} inches; b, 16} inches; c, 114 to 13} inches; Tepehuan Indians, 
Chihuahua, Mexico; cat. no. 44, d¥, 1$35, American Museum of Natural History. 
Cat. no. ;%$,. Set of four sticks of canyon walnut, of slightly differ- 
ent lengths, from 11} to 134 inches, eleven-sixteenths of an inch 
wide, and one-eighth of an inch thick: one side flat, with incised 
designs composed of straight and oblique lines, the incised 
places being stained red (figure 178¢); opposite sides rounded 
and plain. 
Cat. no. ;%5,. Set 6f four sticks of pifion wood, 63 inches in length 
and three-eighths of an inch square (figure 179). 
These last sticks have four instead of two faces. Two opposite sides 
are flat and unpainted. One set of the other four sides is unpainted, 
with incised lines filled with red paint, as shown in figure 179. The 
sides opposite to these are slightly rounded and painted red. The 
top stick is marked with a diagonal line across the middle, the next 
