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ceived by any of the opposite party, all the while keeping time to the movements 
of his hands with one of the peculiar d6-4 songs, in which the members of his 
party join. 
When the opposing player thinks he has detected in which hand the other 
has concealed the stick, he indicates it with a peculiar jerk of his thumb and 
index finger in that direction, with a loud Tsoq! (Comanche for “ That!”) ; if 
he has guessed correctly, he scores a certain number of points, the account being 
kept by means of a bundle of green-painted tally sticks. He then takes the 
k’fiibo and begins a similar set of movements in time to another song, in which 
his partners join; so the game goes on far into the night, until the contest 
is decided and the stakes won by one side or the other. It is a most animated 
and interesting game, of which they are very fond, and frequently at night in 
the winter camp the song chorus may be heard from several games in progress 
simultaneously, the high-pitched voices of the women in one tipi making a 
pleasing contrast to the deeper tones of the men in another. 
Mr Mooney gives a picture of the doa game from a Kiowa calendar 
[figure 367], which he describes as follows: 
Winter 1881-82. Imd4d6a-de Saif, “ Winter when they played the d6-4 
medicine game.” This winter is noted for a great d6-4 game played under the 
auspices of two rival leaders, each of whom claimed to 
have the most powerful “medicine” for the game. The 
game was played in the winter camp on the Washita, near 
the mouth of Hog Creek, the Kiowa leader being Pa-tepte, 
“ Buffalo-bull-coming-out,” alias Datekan, now dead, . 
while his opponent was the Apache chief and medicine 
man Diivéko. The Kiowa leader was recognized distinc- 
tively as having “ medicine’ for this game, and it was 
said that he could do wonderful things with the “ button,” 
making it pass invisibly from one hand to another while he 
held his hands outstretched and far apart, and even to 
throw it up into the air and cause it to remain there sus- 
pended invisibly until he was ready to put out his hand 
again and catch it; in other words, he was probably an 
expert sleight-of-hand performer. His Apache rival, Di- 
véko, is known as a medicine man as well as a chief, and Fic. 367. Hand game; 
is held in considerable dread, as it is believed that he can kill Kiowa Indians, Okla- 
by shooting invisible darts from a distance into the body eC i 
of an enemy. On this occasion he had boasted that his Mooney. 
medicine was superior for the d6-4 game, which did not 
prove to be the case, however, and as the Kiowa medicine man won the victory 
for his party, large stakes were wagered on the result and were won by the 
Kiowa. It is said that this was a part of Pa-tepte’s effort to revive the old 
customs and amusements on a large scale. The game was witnessed by a large 
concourse, all dressed and painted for the occasion. The picture on the Set-t’an 
calendar is very suggestive. 
KITUNAHAN STOCK 
Kurenat. Bonners Ferry, Idaho. (Cat. no. 51878. Field Columbian 
Museum. ) 
Two sets of bones (figure 368), one 24 inches in length and the other 
23 inches in length; both about three-fourths of an inch in diam- 
