CULIN] DICE GAMES: WALAPATI 207 
Mr John J. McKoin, the collector, describes the game under the 
name of hotan: 
This game is played with four billets, one side of which is flat. The players 
lay one stick on the ground, flat side down; then they throw the three remain- 
ing sticks with the hand and let them fall upon the ground. If all fall with 
the same side up it counts one. The game is for 4 or 5 points. The sticks are 
given to different players when two sticks fall the same side up. This is a 
gambling game, beds, blankets, ponies, and sometimes wives being wagered. 
Watxapat. Walapai reservation, Arizona. (Field Columbian Mu- 
seum. ) 
Cat. no. 61099. Three wooden blocks (figure 275), 3% inches by 
three-fourths of an inch, one side plain and rounded and the 
other flat with painted red streak. 
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Fig. 277. 
Fig. 275. Stick dice; length, 3} inches; Walapai Indians, Walapai reservation, Arizona; cat. no. 
61099, Field Columbian Museum. 
FiG. 276. Stick dice; length, 4 inches; Walapai Indians, Walapai reservation, Arizona; cat. no. 
61100, Field Columbian Museum. 
Fia. 277. Stick dice; length, 4} inches: Walapai Indians, Walapai reservation, Arizona; cat. no. 
63206, Field Columbian Museum. 
Fia. 278. Stick dice; length, 44 inches; Walapai Indians, Walapai reservation, Arizona; cat. no. 
63209, Field Columbian Museum. 
Cat. no. 61100. Three wooden blocks (figure 276), 4 inches by seven- 
eighths of an inch, one side plain and rounded, the other flat, 
with painted designs, two alike and one odd. 
Cat. no. 63206. Three wooden blocks (figure 277), 44 inches by 1 
inch, one side plain and rounded, the other flat and painted with 
brown dots. 
Cat. no. 63209. Three wooden blocks (figure 278), 44 inches by 
three-fourths of an inch, one side plain and rounded, the other 
flat with painted designs, two alike and one odd. 
