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GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS 
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Collected by Mr Stephen Powers, who describes them as follows: 
Wuhtatseen, gambling pieces, two large round sticks painted red and two 
small ones, manipulated by a player who sits on the ground and holds a willow- 
Fia. 442. Four-stick game; length of sticks, 
6} inches; Paiute Indians, southern Utah; 
cat. no. 14661, United States National 
Museum. 
work tray before him to conceal what 
he does. The other guesses on which 
side of the large stick the small ones 
are. There are ten counters. 
Paruts. Southern Utah. (United 
States National Museum.) 
Cat. no. 14661. Two cylindrical | 
billets of willow wood (fig- 
ure 442), 64 inches in length 
and seven-eighths of an inch 
in diameter, and two similar 
sticks, the same length and one-half of an inch in diameter. 
The ends of the larger billets are painted blue with a red band 
in the middle, while the small ones have red ends and a blue band in 
the middle. 
Fig. 443. Paiute playing four-stick game; southern Utah; from photograph by J. K. Hillers. 
Another (incomplete) set, catalogued under the same number, con- 
sists of three similar billets, unpainted. 
missing. 
One of the larger sticks is 
