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no longer go to show which side wins, for they are thrown by the head man into 
the fire, and the hiding and guessing are kept up by the same sides (i. e., without 
interchange) until all the counters are burnt. The same official then breaks 
the pointing sticks, which are also put into the fire, and he even treats the 
drumstick in the same way, having taken it from the hands of the singer. 
Last of all, he pulls the leather cover off the drum, puts it inside the drum, and 
replaces the hoop. The instrument should remain in this condition until it is 
to be again used. 
Before the people disperse to their homes in the morning a gun is fired off 
outside of the door. . 
Wyanpor. Michigan. 
Mr William E. Connelly gives the following description of the 
moccasin game in an account of a game between a Wyandot and a 
Chippewa at Detroit in 1773: 
Two only can play at this game. They are seated face to face on a buffalo 
or deer skin. Four new moccasins and a rifle ball make up the implements 
employed in the game. The moccasins are placed nearly equidistant, like a 
four-spot on a playing card. The players, seated crosslegged, facing each 
other, now toss up for the ball, or first “ hide.” The winner, taking the ball 
between his thumb and two fingers, proceeds with great dexterity, shuffling his 
hand under the first, second, third, and fourth moccasins, and humming a ditty, 
accompanied by some cabalistic words invoking the aid of his patron deity. 
It now comes to the opposing player to “ find’ at the first, second, or third “ lift.” 
If at the first, it counts a given number in his favor,—say 4; if at second, 2; 
and the third, 1. The latter player now takes the ball and goes through the 
Same process. Ten usually constitutes the game, but 
the number is as the players may agree. 
KERESAN STOCK 
Keres. Acoma, New Mexico. (Cat. no. 4973, Fi. 458. Tubes for hiding 
* game; height, 6} inches; 
Brooklyn Institute Museum.) eat Im dianeou Acoma: 
Four cylinders of cottonwood (figure 458), 64 New Mexico; cat. no. 4973, 
ae 5 5 Brooklyn Institute Mu- 
inches in height, painted black on the top seum. 
and the bottom and having a black band 
around the middle. They were made for the writer by an 
Acoma Indian named James H. Miller (Kamitsa), at Zuni, in 
1904. He gave the name of the tubes as aiyawakotai. A small 
stone ball, yownikototei, is hidden. 
Laguna, New Mexico. (Cat. no. 61817, Field Columbian Mu- 
seum. ) i 
Four cane tubes (figure 459), 44 inches in height; a small stick, 14 
inches in length; a bundle of one hundred splint counting sticks, 
42 inches in length: and five individual counting sticks, four of 
them notched at one end, 7} inches in length (figure 460). 
Cat. no. 61818. Another set of tubes, 34 inches in height. 
@ Wyandot Folklore, p. 112, Topeka, 1899. Mr Connelly in a note states that the story 
of the game was published in the Gazette, of Kansas City, Kansas, by Governor William 
Walker, some time in the sixties or early in the seventies. 
