CULIN] HIDDEN-BALL GAME: PIMA $55 
chooses one of the other’s prostrate reeds—the one thought to contain the bean. 
If both fail, or both succeed, in finding the bean in the same throw, the hiding 
operation is repeated. If one succeeds and the other fails, the four reeds go to 
the fortunate finder, and the game begins. 
The possessor of all the reeds repeats the shuffling of the bean over their 
open tops, filling them with sand, and throwing them in front of his antago- 
nist, who separates them into pairs, usually the “old 
people” and “ young people,” though it is not compulsory ig 
so to pair them. He next crosses a pair by placing one { 
above the other at right angles, selects one of the un- ie 
crossed reeds of the other pair—the one thought to con- : 
tain the bean—and pours the sand fromit. if he succeeds 
in finding the bean in this reed, all the reeds immediately 
go to him, and he in turn performs the operation just 
described, his opponent doing the guessing. If he fails | 
to do so, the position of the reed containing the beans 
counts so many grains of corn to the man who places the 
bean, the top-crossed reed being worth 10, the under- 
Fia.464. Cane tubes for 
hiding game: length, 
7} inches; Papago In- 
crossed 6, and the single reed 4. dians, Pima county, 
The counters, or grains of corn, are first placed on one Arizona; cat.no.74517, 
United States Na- 
side, all together, and each player draws his winnings : 
tional Museum. 
from this pile, or bank, until it is exhausted; then the 
exchange is made directly from the winnings of the players until one or the 
other has lost all his corn. The possessor of all the grain becomes the winner 
of the game. 
So long as the player attempting to name the reed containing the bean fails 
to do so, his opponent is winning and holds possession of the reeds, repeating the 
operation of placing the bean and filling the reeds with sand until the proper 
reed is guessed. 
Fic. 465. Papago Indians playing hiding game; Arizona; from photograph by William Dinwiddie. 
Pima. Gila River reservation, Sacaton agency, Pinal county, Ari- 
zona. (Cat. no. 63289, Field Columbian Museum. ) 
Four cane tubes (figure 466), 63 inches in length, tops closed with 
natural joints, faces marked with transverse cuts, painted black, 
arranged differently to distinguish the tubes. 
Collected by Mr S. C. Simms, who gives the name of the game as 
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