192 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS [ern ann. 24 
horse around the circle in the same direction that the first is going or in the 
opposite. If in the same direction, he will do his best to make a throw which 
will bring his horse into the same notch as that of the first man, in which case 
the first man is killed and has to take his horse back to the starting point, to 
try over again when he gets another turn. In case the second man starts in 
the opposite direction—which he will not do unless an expert player—he has 
to calculate with a good deal of skill for the meeting, to kill and to avoid being 
killed by the first player. When he starts in the same direction, he is behind, 
and runs no chance of being killed, while he has just as good a 
NING n chance to kill. ,But if, even then, a high throw carries him 
IN e ahead of the first man—for jumping does not count either way, 
AOL 3 the only killing being when two horses come in the same notech— 
his rear is in danger, and he will try to run on out of the way of 
HOU 5 his pursuer as fast as possible. The more players the more com- 
plicated the game, for each horse is threatened alike by foes that 
NINN 10 chase from behind and charge from before, and the most skillful 
oe Re player is liable to be sent back to the starting point several 
1G.252. Counts 5 teh ae : 5 
ee See dice: times before the game is finished, which is as soon as one horse 
Tigua Indians, has made the complete circuit. Sometimes the players, when 
Isleta, New very young or unskilled, agree there shall be no killing; but 
Reeds unless there is an explicit arrangement to that effect, killing is 
‘ 3 understood, and it adds greatly to the interest of the game. 
There is also another variation of the game—a rare one, however. In case 
the players agree to throw fifteens, all the pa-tol sticks are made the same, 
except that one has an extra notch to distinguish it from the others. Then 
the throws are as shown in figure [252]. 
In reply to a letter of inquiry, Mr Lummis wrote me that he dis- 
tinctly remembers having witnessed this game at Isleta, Santa Clara, 
San Ildefonso, Tesuque, and Taos (Tanoan); at Acoma, Titsiama, 
and Canada Cruz (Acoma colonies), Cochiti, Laguna, El Rito, 
Sandia, Santo Domingo, and San Felipe (Keresan) ; and at Zuni. 
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I feel quite confident I saw it also in San Juan (Tanoan), though of that I 
would not be positive. I can not remember seeing the game played in Jemez, 
Picuris, and Pojoaque (Tanoan) ; in Sia (Keresan) or any of the Moqui pueblos 
except Hano (which of course is a village of migration from the Rio Grande). 
In Nambe (Tanoan) I never saw it, I am sure. 
Trewa. Nambe, New Mexico. (Cat. no. 17773, 17774, Field Columbian 
Museum. ) 
Set of stick dice, three pieces of split twig, 32 inches in length, 
one side rounded and the other flat; one of the round sides 
marked with fifteen notches (figure 253). Collected by Mr L. M. 
Lampson. 
There are two sets, one having the bark left on the back; on the 
other it is removed. The game is described under the name of tugea, 
or patol : 
This game is played by two or more persons. Forty small stones are laid in 
a circle with a space or gate between each group of ten. The players throw 
the billets perpendicularly upon a stone, the surfaces falling uppermost deter- 
