CULIN] DICE GAMES: MARICOPA 201 
sticks between the stones, hue, that compose the circle, one side counting in 
one direction from the opening and the other keeping tally in the opposite 
direction. } 
Maricopa. Arizona. (Cat. no. 2926, Brooklyn Institute Museum.) 
Four sticks (figure 268), 7 inches in length, one side flat and painted 
red, and the other rounded. Collected in 1904 by Mr Louis L. 
Meeker. 
The collector describes the game under the name of kainsish: 
A joint of cane quartered will serve instead of the sticks. The four flat sides 
up count 1; the four round sides up count 2; the other throws, nothing, 
though sometimes they have values agreed upon also. The count is made by 
marking in the dust. The game is for 6 points, or as many as are agreed upon. 
FiG. 268. Stick dice; length, 7 inches; Maricopa Indians, Arizona; cat. no, 2926, Brooklyn Insti- 
tute Museum. 
The following abstract of Maricopa mythology, furnished by Mr 
Meeker, refers to the game with four sticks: 
Table of generations 
I. First principles : 
Females: Mat, the Earth 
Hlash, the Moon 
Males: Hyaish, the Sky 
Hlash, the Sun 
Il. Offspring (originally hermaphrodites) : 
(1) Terrestrial (of the Earth by the Sky) 
Kokmat, mud 
Kokmat hairk, his brother 
(2) Celestial (of the Moon by the Sun) 
Hatelowish epash, Coyote man 
Quokosh epash, Fox man 
Our man in the moon is Hatelowish, or Quokosh. The Brother seems to have 
been the first handiwork of Hatelowish epash. He is also identified with the 
Spider Woman, who spun the web on which the earth was deposited. 
Once, when there was yet no earth, a whirlwind came down out of the sky into 
the turbid water, and they were man and wife. 
Twins came. Winds carried them about during their long infancy, childhood, 
and early manhood. 
At length the elder changed the other into a spider and sent him to stretch 
webs north and south, east and west, and between points. Then a close web was 
woven outward from the center, where the lines crossed. On this plant the 
earth was built of sediment deposited by the water. The elder brother then 
shaped the earth. The sky was so close the sun soon dried and cracked it up 
