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The reverses are plain, with the exception of the third from the 
left, which has a cross inseribed upon the back. The device on the 
face of this die was intended to represent the head of a buffalo, which 
is more plainly delineated upon one of the Mandan dice (figure 242). 
~ The dice are described by the collector as being played by women and 
shaken up in a basket. 
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Fic. 188. Bone dice; lengths, 1} to 1; inches; Comanche Indians, Oklahoma: cat. no. 152911a, 
United States National Museum. 
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Fra. 189. Bone dice; lengths, 1; and 1} inches; Comanche Indians, Oklahoma; cat. no. 1529110, 
United States National Museum. , 
Cat. no. 1529116. Set of six bone dice with designs like those on the 
preceding , but painted green instead of red (figure 189). Both 
sets were collected by Mr James Mooney. 
Horr. Oraibi, Arizona. (Field Columbian Museum.) 
Cat. no. 55352. Sandstone slab, inscribed with 
diagram, 11 inches in length; and four 
pieces of cane, 34 inches in length, with 
the outer face burned with dots in chevron 
pattern (figure 190). 
i These were collected in 1899 by Rev. H. R. 
Fic. 190. Cane dice; . 5 aon A 
length, 3} inches; Hopi Voth, and are described by him as implements 
Indians, Oraibi, Ari; for the game of totolospi: 
zona; cat. no. 55352, 
Field Columbian Mu- In this game either two or four participate. Each 
seu player has one piece, which is placed in the ring seen in 
the four semicircles. The sticks are then thrown by one party, and as long as 
either the plain or the figured sides of all the sticks lie upward he moves his 
piece forward over the cross lines toward the center. As soon as the sticks 
present different surfaces another player throws. 
Cat. no. 55353. Inscribed stone for game of totolospi (figure 191). 
* Compare with the Aztec totoloque: ‘‘ Sorte de jeu qui consistait A lancer d’un peu loin 
de petits jalets coulés en or et trés-polis sur des palets également en or; cing marques 
Suffisaient pour qu’on perdit ou qu’on gagnat certaine piéce ou joaillerie qui formait 
Venjeu (B. Diaz).”’ R. Simeon, Dictionnaire de la Langue Nahuatl ou Mexicaine (Paris, 
1885). The same name, totolospi, is applied by the Tewa at Hano to the foreign Mexican 
(Spanish) game like Fox and Geese, and the word was probably derived from the Mexican 
like the analogous patol. 
