210 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS  [eru. ann. 24 
These were collected by Dr H. F. C. ten Kate, jr, who gives the 
name as otochei. He refers to this game as played only by women.? 
In reply to my inquiry in reference to the words tadak and otochei, 
given by the collector as the names of the preceding Yuman games, 
Dr A. 8. Gatchet writes: 
I have not been able to discover any Yuma or Mohave words resembling your 
otoche-i and tadak either in the vocabularies in our vaults or in those that I have 
published myself in the Zeitschrift fiir Ethnologie. The term “ Yuma” refers to 
a tribe which, during the last forty years, had a reservation at the confluence of 
the Gila and Colorado rivers, who seem to have resided on New river near the 
Mohave desert in California. Yuma is also used at present to comprehend all 
the languages or dialects cognate with the Yuma dialect at the above confluence, 
under the name of Yuma linguistic family. Your word otoche-i has pretty nearly 
the ring of an Aztec, or better, Nahuatl word. ° 
ZUNIAN STOCK 
ZuNt. Zuni, New Mexico. (Cat. no. 20031, Free Museum of Science 
and Art, University of Pennsylvania.) 
Set of four sticks, 54 mehes in length, in two pairs, each of which 
consists of a length of reed split in the middle. 
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Fig. 283. Fig. 284. 
Fig. 283. Sacrificial cane dice (reverse); Zuni Indians, Zuni, New Mexico; cat. no. 20031, Free 
Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
Fia. 284. Sacrificial cane dice (obverse); length, 5} inches; Zuni Indians, Zuni, New Mexico; 
cat. no. 20031, Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
The inner sides of the reed are painted as shown in figure 283, and 
the opposite rounded sides scratched with transverse lines and burnt, 
as shown in figure 284. These were employed, according to Mr 
Cushing, in the game of sholiwe, canes, one of the four games” which 
are sacrificed to the twin War Gods, Ahaiyuta and Matsailema. 
These particular canes were not made to play with, but for the pur- 
pose of sacrifice. 
«“ Reigen en Onderzoekingen in Noord Amerika, p. 114, Leiden, 1885. 
»In addition to sho’liwe there were lfpochiwe, feather dart; i’yankolowe, hidden ball, 
and métikawe, kicked stick. Compare with the four Sia games described on p. 123. 
