266 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS | [ETH. Ann. 24 
WISHOSKAN STOCK 
Barawat. Humboldt county, California. (Cat. no. 37269, Free Mu- 
seum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania.) 
Bundle of two hundred and fifty fine splints, three with black bands, 
8 inches in length, and two hundred and six fine splints, three 
with black center, two with black center and ends, sixty-six all 
black, and the remainder plain, 84 inches in length. 
These were collected by the writer in 1900. The sticks are called 
gutsapi, the trump, schowowick, and the 
game, bokoworis. 
Cat. no. 37287. Twelve cylinders of hard 
polished wood (figure 342) ,4% inches 
in length, and five-sixteenths of an 
inch in diameter, painted as follows: 
Five with broad black band in the 
middle, five with band at the end, one 
with bands at ends, and one with two 
bands nearly midway from the ends. 
These specimens were purchased by the 
writer in 1900 at Arcata, Califorfia, and 
came from an Indian who was probably 
from Klamath river. A Mad River In- 
Fic. 342. Stick game; length of dian named Dick, at Blue Lake. Califor- 
sticks, 4} inches; Klamath river, 6 : : eae 
California: cat. no. 37287,Free Mu. la, recognized these sticks and said it 
seum of Science and Art, Univer- was customary to play with six, five alike 
sity of Pennsylvania. : S 
and one odd one. The sticks were con- 
cealed in bundles of grass. He gave the same vocabulary as that re- 
corded above for the fine sticks. 
ZUNIAN STOCK 
ZuNr. Zuni, New Mexico. (Cat. no. 4989, Brooklyn Institute Mu- 
seum. ) 
Twenty-one small willow sticks (figure 343), 2% inches in length. 
These were collected by the writer in 
1904 and are used in a game called sawi- 
posiwai, sticks mixed up. 
The sticks are first rolled between the hands 4 
and the bundle divided, with the hands behind the yg. 343. Stick game; length of 
back. The hands are then brought forward and sticks, 2 inches; Zuni Indians, 
the other player, who knows the total number of — 2™5i, New Mexico; cat. no. 4989, 
A : fe: tae 5 Brooklyn Institute Museum. 
sticks, tries to guess the number held in the left 
hand by calling out. A stake is put up, and if the player guesses correctly he 
becomes the winner. The game is no longer played, and was recalled with diffi- 
culty by an old man. 
