296 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS _ [prn. ann. 24 
black for a distance of 44 inches; accompanied with twenty count- 
ers, fragments of twigs, about 24 inches in length. 
These were collected by Mr 8. C. Simms, who gives the name of the 
game as wahpetah, and states that it is played by six persons, three 
on each side. The players on one side conceal the sticks under their 
arms, putting a finger ito each loop, the other side guessing whether 
they have the sticks under the right or the left arm. 
Fig. 387. Sticks for wahpetah; length, 13} inches; Pima Indians, Arizona; cat. no. 63300, Field 
Columbian Museum. 
Pima. Arizona. 
Dr Frank Russell « deseribes the following game: 
Vaputta.—Any number of players may participate, but they are under two 
leaders who are selected by toss. Each draws up his men in line so that they 
face their opponents. <A goal about 50 yards distant is marked out, and the 
game begins. A small object, usually a circular piece of pottery such as are so 
common about the ruins of the Southwest, is carried around behind the line by 
a leader and placed in the hands of one of his men. The opposite leader guesses 
which man holds the object. If he guesses wrong, the man at the end of the 
line in which the object is held, who stands farthest from the goal, runs and 
jumps over the upheld leg of the man at the opposite end of his line. This 
moves the winning line the width of one man and the length of a jump toward 
the goal. If the first guess is correct the object is passed to him and there is 
no jumping until a guess fails. 
PUJUNAN STOCK 
Konxavu. California. (Cat. no. =2%;, American Museum of Natural 
History.) 
Four bones (figure 388), hollow, two closed with wooden plugs and 
wound in the middle with cord, the other two plain; length, 24 
to 3 inches. Collected by Dr Roland B. Dixon. 
Mr Stephen Powers ° relates a myth of the Konkau in which their 
eulture hero, Oankoitupeh (the Invincible), overcame Haikutwoto- 
peh at gambling in a guessing game, and won back his grandfather’s 
@1n a forthcoming memoir to be published by the Bureau of American Ethnology. 
>The object is called rsiiki, slave. It is 40 or 50 mm. in diameter, is pitted in the cen- 
ter “to prevent cheating,” and may be of either pottery or stone. 
¢ Contributions to North American Ethnology, v. 3, p. 298, Washington, 1877. 
