312 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS  [eru. ann. 24 
Mr J. K. Hillers, who was a member of Major Powell’s expedition, 
has furnished the writer the following account of the game played 
with the above-mentioned bones and counters: 
It is called ne ang-puki, meaning to kill the bone (pu-ki means to kill; ang 
or ong being the bone, and ne probably a personal prefix for my, the whole 
name being equivalent to ‘‘my bone to kill”’). The “ banker” takes two bones, 
one with a string wound round the middle and the other plain, and places his 
hands behind his back. His side then chants for a minute or two, during which 
Fig. 410. Paiute Indians playing hand game; southern Utah; from photograph by Mr J. K. 
Hillers. @ 
time he shifts the bones from one hand to the other. On “ eall,’ he brings 
both hands to the front, and crosses them on his breast. The callers now 
begin their chant. Suddenly one will extend his arm and point to the hand in 
which he thinks the banker holds the marked bone, at the same time hitting his 
breast with the other hand. If the guess is correct, the guesser takes the bones 
after the “ rake down,” and the game continues until one side or the other has 
all the counters. 
« Reproduced (fig. 46) without text reference in Maj. J. W. Powell's Exploration of the 
Colorado River of the West, Washington, 1875. 
