214 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS  [eTH. ann. 24 
In the second part of that paper, the publication of which was delayed by my 
Florida explorations, I proceeded to show how these various facts indicated 
quite clearly that the Zuni game of sho’-li-we, as its name implied, developed 
from the use of actual arrows for divination; and I further instanced many 
ceremonial uses of simple or ceremonial arrows in such divinatory processes as 
further demonstrating this claim. 
It may be well for me to preface a description of the four cane slips consti- 
tuting the principal apparatus of the game by a statement or two relative to the 
successional numbers of the four quarters as conceived in Zuni dramatography. 
The chief, or Master, region, as well as the first, is the North. designated 
the Yellow ; believed to be the source of breath, wind, or the element of air, and 
the place of winter; hence of violence or war, and therefore masculine. 
The next, or second regien is the West, designated the Blue; believed to be 
the source of moisture or the element water and the place of spring, or renewal 
and fertility ; hence of birth, and therefore 
— feminine. 
faa I N. The next, or third, is the South, desig- 
nated as the Red; believed to be the source 
of heat or the element fire, and the place 
—S-~ . << of summer, of growth and _ productivity ; 
} Ww. hence of fostering, and likewise feminine. 
The last, or fourth of the earthly regions 
represented in the ordinary sheaf of arrows 
and in the game, is the East, designated the 
s. White, and believed to be the source of 
seeds and the element earth, and the place 
of autumn, of new years, and hence of cre- 
ation; therefore masculine again.¢ 
E. These various regions and their numbers 
Fic. 291. Arrow shaftments of the four 22d meanings are symbolized on the ar- 
directions, showing ribbanding and cut rows of the four quarters by differences in 
cock feathers; Zuni Indians, Zuni, New their ribbandings [figure 291]. 
Mexico; from sketch by Frank Hamilton 
Cushing. 
Those of the North were characterized 
by a single medial ribbanding around the 
shaftment, sometimes of yellow, but more usually of black, the color of death. 
Those of the West were also singly ribbanded coextensively with the shaft- 
ment, but there was oftentimes a narrow terminal band at either end of this 
broad band, sometimes of blue or green, but usually of black. 
Those of the South were characterized by two bands midway between the two 
ends and the middle, sometimes of red, but usually of black. 
Those of the Hast were characterized by either two narrow bands at either 
end, leaving the whole medial space of the shaftment white, or, more often by a 
single band at the upper end of the shaftment, sometimes composed of two 
narrow black fillets inclosing white, but usually merely black and not double. 
In the highly finished arrows the cock or tail feathers were notched and 
tufted to correspond numerically and positionally with the bandings, for mythic 
reasons into which it is not necessary to enter here. 
Each of the four cane slips was banded to correspond with the ribbandings 
of one or another of these sets of the arrows of the four quarters; but the paint 
bands [figure 283] were almost invariably black and were placed in the con- 
cavity of the cane slip, not on the periphery (which was, however, scorched, 
«See Outlines of Zuni Creation Myths. Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of 
Hthnology, p. 369, 1896. 
