evLiy] FOUR-STICK GAME: PAIUTE 333 
Acnomawi. Fall river, Shasta county, California. 
Dr J. W. Hudson describes the following game* under the name 
of tikali: © 
Four rods, two bound, 7 inches in length, called teok’-teaé, and two plain, 9 
inches in length, called ta-ko’-li, are juggled behind a large, exible basket 
plaque, ta-ko’-li tsu-ti’-pa, and the relative position of the rods guessed at. The 
game is counted with ten counters. 
SHOSHONEAN STOCK 
Parure. Pyramid lake, Nevada. (Cat. no. 61505, 61519, Field 
Columbian Museum.) 
Four billets of wood, 6 inches in length, two of them 1 inch and two 
one-half of an inch in diameter, accompanied by ten cottonwood 
counting sticks, 7 inches in 
length, sharpened at one 
end, the upper two-thirds 
of each stick painted with 
a spiral band of red. 
These were collected by Dr 
George A. Dorsey, who gives 
the name of the game as witutzi, 
of the larger billets as biebpe, F'6- 440. Four-stick game; length of sticks, 64 
inches; Paiute Indians, Pyramid lake, Nevada; 
mother, and of the smaller ones cat. no. 19044, United States National Museum 
as duaa, young. The counters 
are called tohu. In playing, the sticks are arranged under a large, 
flat basket. 
—— Pyramid lake, Nevada. (Cat. no. 19044, United States Na- 
tional Museum. ) 
Two cylindrical billets of wood (figure 440), 64 inches in length and 
14 inches in diameter, and two smaller ones of the same length 
and three-eighths of an inch in diameter. The four sticks are 
Fia. 441. Counting sticks for four-stick game; length, 8} inches; Paiute Indians, Pyramid lake, 
Nevada; cat. no. 19045, United States National Museum. 
uniformly painted red, and one has two tubes of corn stalk 
slipped over each end. Accompanied with ten willow counting 
tribes, who live on Pit river, Shasta county: Lutwami, Basi’wi, Amits’tci, Pakaémali, 
Hamofiwi, HAadiwiwi, and Sisteitei—(J. W. H.) 
