cULIN] FOUR-STICK GAME 327 
Monave. Parker, Yuma county, Arizona. (Field Columbian Mu- 
seum. ) 
Cat. no. 63338. Four bone cylinders, 2? inches in length, and four 
black wooden cylindrical sticks, all with strings with loop at end, 
attached. 
Collected by Mr S. C. Simms, who describes them as used in the 
game of peon. 
Cat. no. 63337. Two cylindrical sticks (figure 431), 3} inches in 
length, covered with cotton cloth, one red with black ends, and the 
other black with red ends. 
Collected by Mr 8S. C. Simms, who gives the name as toothula. 
Yuma. Colorado river, California. 
Maj. S. P. Heintzelman, U.S. Army, * said in 1853: 
Another game is with short sticks or pebbles, which one hides in his hands, 
and another guesses. 
——Fort Yuma, San Diego county, California. (Cat. no. 63331, 
Field Columbian Museum. ) 
Four small cylinders (figure 432) made of twigs, 24 to 24 inches in 
length, uncolored and with ends hollowed out, and four similar 
cylinders, burned black, with flat ends, all with cords having 
loop at end, attached. 
These were collected by Mr 8. C. Simms, who describes them as 
used in the game of peon, or hohquito. 
Fig. 432. Sticks for peon; length, 2} to 2} inches; Yuma Indians, California; cat. no. 63331, Field 
Columbian Museum. 
Four-stick GAME 
Unlike almost all of the other Indian games, the four-stick game 
is confined to a very limited number of tribes: The Klamath and 
Modoe (Lutuamian), the Achomawi (Shastan), the Paiute (Sho- 
shonean), the Washo (Washoan), and possibly the Chinook. The 
Klamath and Paiute play in much the same way. As in the hand 
game, the count is kept with pointed sticks, which are stuck into the 
ground. Doctor Hudson records the sticks as being regarded as 
divinities. 
« House of Representatives, Executive Document 76, Thirty-fourth Congress, third ses- 
sion, p. 49, Washington, 1857. 
