cuLin] HAND GAME: PAIUTE 311 
Cat. no. 71180. Two strings of glass beads, one of five beads, four 
white and one blue, and the other of six beads, four white and 
two blue, with ten counting sticks (figure 407). 
These specimens were collected by Dr J. W. Hudson, who described 
them as used only by women in a game called niikwibi, the object 
being to guess which hand contains the beads: 
One string is held by each of the two partners. The beads are called o-we’-a, 
literally, “excitement.” Originally dyed acorns were used. 
Parure. Pyramid lake, Nevada. (Cat. no. 37154, Free Museum of 
Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania.) 
Four bones of mountain sheep (figure 408), 34 inches in length and 
three-fourths of an inch in diameter; two wound with black 
thread. 
Collected by the writer in 1900. The bones are called quoip, mean- 
ing “ mountain sheep.” The game is called tuipo. 
Fia. 408. Bones for hand game; length, 34 inches; Paiute Indians, Pyramid lake, Nevada; cat. 
no. 37154, Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
Fia. 409. Bones for hand game; length, 3} inches; Paiute Indians, southern Utah; cat. no. 
1092, United States National Museum. 
— Pyramid lake, Nevada. (Field Columbian Museum. ) 
Cat. no. 61490. Four billets of elk antler, 3f inches in length, pol- 
ished and worn smooth; two bound in the center with a band of 
black leather one-half of an inch wide. 
Cat. no. 61504. Four solid bones, 4 inches in length, beautifully pol- 
ished with use; two bound with a black leather band. 
Cat. no. 61506. Four solid bones, 34 inches in length; similar to 
next preceding. 
Cat. no. 61514. Eight sharpened cottonwood counting sticks, 12 
inches long and one-half of an inch in diameter. 
All the above specimens were collected in 1900 by Dr George A. 
Dorsey, who gives the native name of the game as nayukpui and that 
of the counting sticks as semewawak. The players guess for the 
white bone (sumuyu). 
Southern Utah. (Cat. no. 10956, 10959, 10962, 10963, 10968, 
10969, 10970, 10975, United States National Museum.) 
Sets of bones of two each (figure 409), from 24 to 4 inches in length, 
the ends sharply pointed; one bone in each set wrapped with 
sinew or buckskin. 
These were collected by Maj. J. W. Powell. 
