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with two straight transverse lines near each end, the third has a sin- 
gle transverse cut across the middle, and the fourth is plain. The 
preceding Tepehuan specimens were all collected by Dr Carl Lum- 
holtz. He informs me that the Tepehuan call the game intuvigai 
zuli gairagai, game straight throwing. It is also generally known 
by the Spanish name of quince," or fifteen. 
He states that it is played by all the tribes in Chihuahua who live 
in or near the sierra, and by the Mexicans as well, but is not seen 
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Fic. 179. Stick dice; length, 6} inches; Tepehuan Indians, Chihuahua, Mexico; cat. no. r54s, 
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Fia. 180. Circuit for stick dice game; Tarahumare and Tepehuan Indians, Chihuahua, Mexico; 
from drawing by Dr Carl Lumholtz. 
south of the state of Durango. It is not known to the Cora of the 
state of Jalisco, or to the Tarasco of Michoacan. 
Zuaque. Rio Fuerte, Sinaloa, Mexico. 
Mr C. V. Hartman, who accompanied Dr Carl Lumholtz, informs 
me that the Zuaque play the game of quince with four flattened reeds, 
calling the game kezute. 
PUJUNAN STOCK 
Nisoinam. California. 
Mr Stephen Powers” gives the following account : 
The ha is a game of dice, played by men or women, two, three, or four together. 
The dice, four in number, consist of two acorns split lengthwise into halves, 
with the outsides scraped and painted red or black. They are shaken in the 
hands and thrown into a wide, flat basket, woven in ornamental patterns, 
sometimes worth $25. One paint and three whites, or vice versa, score nothing ; 
@ Also in French, quinze, “‘a popular game with cards, in which the object is to make 
15 points.” The name “quince ”’ does not appear to be confined among the Indians to 
the game played with staves. 
+> Contributions to North American Ethnology, vy. 38, p. 332, Washington, 1877. 
