cuLin] DICE GAMES: TEWA 1938 
mining the count. One flat and one notched round side up count 1; two flat 
and one notched round side up, 3; three flat sides up, 5; three round sides up, 
10; two flat and notched stick up, 15. When 
the count is 10 or 15, the player is entitled to 
another throw. Each player is provided with a 
small stick for a counter. This is called a horse. 
All players start from the same place and move 
their horses forward between the stones ac- 
cording to their score, in the same or opposite 
directions, as they choose. If one player scores 
so that his counter comes to a place occupied by 
the counter of a previous player, the first player pig. 253. Stick’ dice; length, 3% 
must remove his counter or horse and start inches; Tewa Indians, Nambe, 
again, except it be in one of the spaces or gates | New Mexico; cat. no. 11774, Field 
5 c Columbian Museum. 
which may be occupied by two or more horses 
at the same time. The one who first moves his counter completely round the 
circle is the winner. 
Tewa. Santa Clara, New Mexico. (Cat. no. 60359, Field Colum- 
bian Museum. ) 
Four sticks (figure 254), 44 inches in length, one side flat and un- 
marked and the other round with bark on, two of the rounded 
sides with incised marks. 
They were collected by Mr W. C. B. Biddle, who describes the game 
as follows: 
This game is played with four short two-faced lots, two of which bear 
special markings on the obverse side. In playing the 
Saez — game forty small pebbles are placed on the ground in 
the form of a hollow square. Two small sticks or 
eee a) feathers, to be used later on as markers, are placed 
~ ats at the opening in one corner. In the center of the 
add dd 90000099 square is a flat stone or inverted cup. 
Bre. 254. Stick dice: length, The game begins by one of the players taking the 
4} inches; Tewa Indiaas, four staves in hand and casting them on one end on 
Santa Clara, New Mexico; the stone or cup. The count is determined by the 
ioe alae Colum-  ¢haracter of the uppermost side of the staves, and is 
} as follows: All flat sides down count 10; all round 
sides down, 5; two flat sides down, 3. In registering the count the counting 
stick is moved about the stone circuit according to the yalue of the throw. 
The game is ended when one of the counting sticks has made the entire 
circuit. 
Santa Clara, New Mexico. (Cat. no. 176707, United States 
National Museum.) 
Set of three blocks of wood, 5} inches in length, 1 inch in breadth, 
and three-eighths of an inch in thickness (figure 255); flat and 
painted red on one side; the opposite side rounded and painted 
reddish brown. 
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