CULIN] HIDDEN-BALL GAME: PAPAGO 33593} 
Keres. Sia, New Mexico. (Cat. no. 60897, Field Columbian Museum. ) 
Set of four paper tubes, 2% inches in height, open at both ends and 
marked with ink, as shown in figure 461. Collected by Annie M. 
Sayre. 
Sia, New Mexico. 
Mrs Matilda Coxe Stevenson ® describes the following game of this 
type, as played by Poshaiyiinne, the Sia culture hero, in his gambling 
contest with the tribal priest: 
Four circular sticks, some 8 inches long, with hollow ends, were stood in line 
and a blanket thrown over them; the ti’fimoni then put 
a round pebble into the end of one, and removing the 
blanket asked Po’shaiyiinne to choose the stick contain- 
ing the pebble. ‘‘ No, my father,’ said Po’shaiyinne, 
“you first. What am I that I should choose before you?” 
But the ti’iimoni replied, “I placed the stone; I know 
where it is.” Then Po’shaiyiinne selected a stick and 
raising it the pebble was visible. Po’shaiyiinne then : 
threw the blanket over the sticks and placed the stone Frq.461. Paper tubes for 
in one of them, after which the ti’imoni selected a stick hiding game; height, 2f 
and raised it, but no stone was visible. This was re- inches; Keres Indians, 
peated four times. Each time the ti’imoni failed and Sia, New Mexico; cat. 
, ivi aaa no. 60897, Field Colum- 
Po’shaiyiinne succeeded. Pree 
In the third contest the ti’imoni made four 
little mounds of sand, and, throwing a blanket over them, placed in 
one a small round stone. The game proceeded in the same manner, 
Poshaiyiinne placing the stone four times and the ti’fimoni failing 
each time. At the seventh and last contest the game of the pebble 
and four hollow sticks was repeated with the same result. 
PIMAN STOCK 
Papraco. Mission of San Xavier del Bac, Pima county, Arizona. 
(Field Columbian Museum.) 
Cat. no. 63539. Four cane tubes, closed at one end with natural joint, 
with etched designs filled in with colors, as shown in figure 462; 
height, 84 inches. 
Cat. no. 63511. Four cane tubes, similar to the above, but with in- 
cised marks in checker pattern (figure 463); height 94 inches. 
These specimens were collected by Mr 8. C. Simms, who gives the 
name of the game as wahpetah, and describes it as follows: 
This is a game of four wooden cups, in which scmething is concealed. One 
may use any convenient thing; beans or corn will do. After the object is 
concealed, the cups are filled with sand and banded to one’s opponent. If he 
first hands you back the one containing your bean, you gain 10; if the bean 
is in the second, you gain 6; if in the third, 4; but if in the last one you lose 
your turn and he conceals the bean. As soon as you give him the cup he 
«The Sia. Eleventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, p. 61, 1894. 
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