222 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS _ [ern. Ann. 24. 
The following is a vocabulary of the game: blocks, ta’-sho’-li-we; literally 
of wood cones; splints, ti’-we; circle of stones, i’-te-tcbi-na-kya-a’-we, literally 
from one to another succeeding; doorway, a-wena-a-te-kwi-a, literally doorway, 
all directions of ; beans used as counters, a-wi’-yah-na-kya no’we, literally, for 
keeping count beans. 
Mrs Matilda Coxe Stevenson * gives the counts in this game as fol- 
lows: 
Three colored sides up count 10; three uncolored sides up, 5; two uncolored 
and one colored, 3; two colored and one uncolored, 2. The first one around the 
circle wins the game, provided his count does not carry him beyond the starting 
point, in which event he must continue going round until his counter reaches 
the doorway, or spring, as the opening is often called. 
Fig. 299, Fig. 300. 
Fig. 299. Stick dice; length, 44 inches; Zui Indians, Zuni, New Mexico: cat. no. 69003, United 
States National Museum. 
Fig. 300. Stick dice; length, 5} inches; Zuni Indians, Zubi, New Mexico; cat. no. 22591, Free 
Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
Mrs Stevenson says that the Zuni declare that they adopted this 
game from the Navaho. 
Zuni. Zuni, New Mexico. (Cat. no. 22591, Free Museum of Science 
and Art, University of Pennsylvania.) 
Four soft wood blocks (figure 300), 54 inches long and 14 inches 
wide, painted black and marked on the rounded side with diag- 
onal lines and chevrons, two and two alike. Collected by the 
writer in 1902. 
New Mexico. (Cat. no. 16531, Free Museum of Science and 
Art, University of Pennsylvania. ) 
Reproductions of set of three blocks, originals of pinon wood, 4 
inches in length, 14 inches in breadth, and five-sixteenths of an 
inch in thickness (figure 301); made by Mr Cushing; rectangu- 
«Zuni Games. American Anthropologist, n. s., v. 5, p. 495, 1903. 
