cuLaN] HAND GAME: SHOSHONI ole 
Sapopa. California. (Cat. no. 61939, Field Columbian Museum.) 
Four hollow bones (figure 411), 2% inches in length, each having a 
cord, with a loop at the end, attached to a hole in the middle, 
and four pieces of charred twig, with similar cords tied around 
the middle. 
Collected by Mr Edwin Minor, who describes them as used in the 
game of peon: 
Peon is a very exciting game, played by four, six, or eight men, seated in two 
opposing lines. Each line holds a blanket in front, 
isually in the players’ teeth, to hide the hands and the 
manipulation of the cylinders. Each player has looped 
io each hand one bone and one wood cylinder. The game 
is to guess in which hand the bone cylinder is fixed. 
When a correct guess is made the cylinder must be 
passed over to the one guessing. When all the bone 
cylinders are secured by one side the game is won. 
All the men who are being guessed at keep up a con- 
tinual noise and make hideous grimaces to mystify their 
manipulations. Interested women stand by and sing 
fantastic and weird songs to encourage their friends. 
This game is often continued all night before either side 
wins. 
Snosnont. Wind River reservation, \Vyoming. 
(Cat. no. 60751, Field Columbian Mu- ae Spas 
seum. ) dians, California; cat. 
Four solid bones, 5 inches in length, much used 2. 61080, Field Colum 
and yellow with age, two wrapped with 
coarse black thread; also twenty counting sticks of cherry wood, 
18 inches long, with one end cut square off and the other 
sharpened to a long tapering point. 
These were collected in 1900 by Dr George A. Dorsey, who gives 
the name of the game as tenzok; of the marked bone as peganata, tie 
with string; of the unmarked bone, tesaivik, white one; of the coun- 
ter, tohok. 
Wind River reservation. Wyoming. (Free Museum of Science 
and Art, University of Pennsylvania.) 
Fig. 412. Bones for hand game; length, 3} inches; Shoshoni Indians, Wyoming; cat.no. 36871, 
Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
Cat. no. 36869. Two polished bones, one covered in the middle for a 
third of its length with a band of buckskin; length, 3} inches. 
Cat. no. 36871. Two polished bones (figure 412), one wrapped in 
the center with a leather thong: length, 3? inches. 
