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lar in section; one side painted uniformly white and the opposite 
side with transverse bands of color separated by black lines of 
paint, in the following order: yellow, blue, red, variegated, 
white, speckled, and black. 
Mr Cushing informed me that these blocks are used in a divinatory 
form of tasholiwe, called temthlanahnatasholiwe, of all the region’s 
wood canes. 
In this game the counting grains are named for: North, thlup-tsi kwa-kwe, 
yellow medicine seed people; West, thli’-a kwa-kwe, blue medicine seed people ; 
South, shi-lo-a kwa-kwe, red medicine seed people; East, ko’-ha kwa-kwe, 
white medicine seed people; Upper region, ku’-tsu-a kwa-kwe, variegated medi- 
cine seed people; Lower region, k’wi’-na kwa-kwe, black medicine seed people ; 
Middle or all-containing region, i’-to-pa-nah-na kwa-kwe, of all colors medicine 
seed people. 
Siete 
Fig. 301. Fig. 302. 
Fic. 301. Stick dice; length, 4 inches; Zuni Indians, Zuni, New Mexico; cat. no. 16531, Free 
Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
Fic. 302. Stick dice for basket-dice game; length, 4 inches; Zuni Indians, Zuni, New Mexico; 
cat. no. 3035, Brooklyn Institute Museum. 
This game is employed in name divination and prognostication of an indi- 
vidual, usually of a youth, the colors being noted for the purpose of determining 
the rank, and name significant thereof, of the one for whom the divination is 
made. 
Mrs Matilda Coxe Stevenson, commenting upon the above game 
(figure 301), says that she has not discovered any such form, but that 
a Zufi will sometimes, when he wishes to play sholiwe, refer to the 
canes as temtlanana sholiwe, literally all grandfathers’ arrow reeds, 
i. e., reeds of our forefathers.? 
Zuxt. Zuni, New Mexico. (Cat. no. 3035, Brooklyn Institute 
Museum. ) 
Four very thin flat sticks, 4 inches in length, painted red on one side 
as shown in figure 302, there being two and two alike, the reverse 
plain. Collected by the writer in 1903. 
The Zuni described these sticks as used as dice in the game of tsaspatsawe, 
a woman’s game, learned by the Zuni from the Navaho and regarded as a 
a The stick with notches (page 194), used in the Tanoan game, suggests the probability 
that these painted sticks replaced others wrapped with colored thread or fabric. 
*Zuni Games. American Anthropologist, n. s., vy. 5, p. 496, 1903. 
