326 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS _ [2rH. ayn. 24 
Collected by Mary C. B. Watkins, who describes them as used in 
the peon game. 
Mouave. Colorado river, Arizona. .(Cat. no. 10333, United States 
National Museum.) 
Five hollow worked bones, 22 inches in length and one-fourth of an 
inch in diameter (figure 429). The catalogue calls for six speci- 
mens. 
These specimens were collected by Dr Edward Palmer, who fur- 
nished the writer the following account : 
These bones are made of the leg bones of 
the white crane. Six pieces constitute the set, 
Fra. 429. Bone for hand game; length, there being two sides with three pieces on a 
2 inches; Mohave Indians, Arizona; side, of different lengths. The game is to guess 
cat. no. 10333, United States National the length of the pieces held in the hands of 
Museum. the players. A very small end protruded 
through the fingers. As the opposite sides guess it is an animated game. 
Doctor Palmer adds: 
These bones are also used by the Yuma (Arizona) and the Cocopa (Sonora, 
Mexico), and the game is played by them also the same as by the Mohave. One 
side takes eighteen or twenty sticks as counters. One side has white and the 
other black bones. The game is to guess in which hand the bones are held. 
Colorado river, Arizona. (Cat. no. 24179, United States Na- 
tional Museum.) 
Fig. 430. Fen oee 
Fig. 430. Sticks for peon; length, 3} inches; Mohave Indians, Arizona; cat. no. 24179, United 
States National Museum. 
Fig. 431. Cloth-covered sticks for hand game; length, 3} inches; Mohave Indians, Arizona; cat. 
no. 63337, Field Columbian Museum. 
Two worked twigs (figure 430), 34 inches in length and nine-six- 
teenths of an inch in diameter, one painted black and the other 
unpainted, each having a cord attached, ending in a slip noose. 
This cord passes into a hole in the middle of each stick. A hole 
runs longitudinally also through the stick. 
Collected by Dr Edward Palmer. A similar pair of sticks, also 
collected by him, is in the Peabody Museum (cat. no. 10093). 
