3854 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS  [xrH. any. 24 
empties it and conceals the bean again. The score is 50, the loser paying from 
a pile of fifty beans. 
Papaco. Pima county, Arizona. (Cat. no. 74517, United States Na- 
tional Museum. ) 
Four single joints of reed (Phragmitis communis), each about 74 
inches in length and 1 inch in diameter, having one end open, and 
the other closed by the natural diaphragm of the joint (figure 464). 
They are marked with small squares, cut in simple patterns in the 
faces of the cylinders. By these designs they are separated into 
pairs, called the “ old people ” and the “ young people.” Scarlet chila- 
cayote beans also belong to the game, each player usually possessing 
his private bean and one hundred grains of corn, or a greater number, 
as may be determined by the players prior to the game. 
Fig. 462. Fig. 463. 
Fig. 462. Cane tubes for hiding game; height, 8} inches; Papago Indians, Pima county, Arizona; 
cat. no. 63539, Field Columbian Museum. 
Fie. 463. Cane tubes for hiding game; height, 9} inches; Papago Indians, Pima county, Arizona; 
cat. no. 63511, Field Columbian Museum. 
The four marked tubes receive the following names: Aks, old 
woman; kii li, old man; ho tes juk, made black; mi ok ju ool (merely 
a name). 
These specimens were collected by Dr W J McGee and Mr William 
Dinwiddie in 1894. The following description is given by the col- 
lectors under the name of wapetaikhgut : 
This is a gambling game much in vogue among the Papago Indians. Two con- 
testants usually engage in the play, though any number may enter the same 
game. Before the game proper begins there is an initiatory struggle between 
the two players to gain possession of the reeds. Hach of the contestants takes 
a pair of reeds, and, holding them vertically, with the opening up, in one hand, 
rapidly passes the other, in which a chilacayote bean is held, over the opening, 
dropping it into one of them when he considers the adversary sufficiently con- 
fused by the motion. Hach fills his reeds full of sand from a small heap col- 
lected for the purpose, and throws them down before his opponent. Each 
