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One stick has fifteen transverse notches painted green on the 
rounded side. The notches are divided by an incised cross painted 
yellow.* 
The following account of the game, from a manuscript by the col- 
lector, Mr T. S. Dozier, was kindly placed in my hands by Mr F. W. 
Hodge: 
Grains of corn or pebbles are laid in the form of a square, in sections of ten 
each. The two players sit on either side. The sticks, called é-pfe, are thrown 
in turn on a stone placed in the square. The counts are as follows: Two flat 
and notched sticks, notches up, count 15; tthree round sides up, 10; three flat 
sides up, 5; two flat and one round side, not notched, up, 3; one flat and two 
round sides, not notched, up, 1. 
The players move their markers between the grains or pebbles according to 
their throw, going in opposite directions. The one first returning to the start- 
ing point wins. This is the ordinary way. Sometimes, the markers being con- 
Fig. 255 Fig. 256. 
Fia. 255. Stick dice; length, 5} inches; Tewa Indians, Santa Clara, New Mexico; cat. no. 176707, 
United States National Museum. 
Fia. 256. Stick dice and marking sticks; lengths, 44 and 4} inches; Tigua Indians, Taos, New 
Mexico; cat. no. 20123, Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
sidered as horses, a player will attempt to kill his adversary’s horses. In this 
case he so announces at the commencement of the game, and he then moves his 
marker in the same direction, and, by duplicating the first throw, or, if at any 
future stage of the game, always following, he succeeds in placing his marker 
where his adversary’s is, by so doing he kills that horse (marker) and sends 
him back to the place of beginning. The latter may then elect to move in the 
same direction as before and kill and send back his adversary, but, if he wishes, 
he may go in the opposite direction, in which case he does no killing. The game 
is called tugi-é-pfé, meaning the thrown stick (tugi, to throw). 
Mr Dozier states that the stick with fifteen notches gives rise to the 
Mexican name of quince (fifteen), which is sometimes given its Tewa 
equivalent of tadipwa nopfe, and juego de pastor, shepherd’s game. 
« Another set, collected by Mr T. S. Dozier, in the Free Museum of Science and Art of the 
University of Pennsylvania (cat. no. 20153), has the notches painted green, red, yellow, 
and blue, and the cross red. These marks appear to imitate wrappings of cord of dif- 
ferent colors. 
