cuLIN] HIDDEN-BALL GAME: HOPI 857 
these Indians on the river banks in conical sand heaps which they 
form for the purpose. 
It is a game with four hollow pieces of reed and a bean [figure 468], el juego 
de canulos y chilicote. The four hollow reed pieces are filled with sand, and in 
one of these the red chilacayote bean is hidden. The four reeds are then placed 
in the sand heap and guesses are made for the bean. 
But the reeds are also marked with numbers that 
are counted and have their value for the players. 
When a game is finished, the party who have lost 
have to sing the song of this game, while the win- = - 
ners fill the reeds anew with sand and hide the Frq@.468. Chilacayote beans for 
bean. The song begins: ‘“ Wa’-ka-ti’-na-hi’-A, sa-na’- hiding game; Zuaque Indians, 
na-na-ja.” The bean is of a small tree, Erythrina SEEN Liat 
coralloide (D. C.), and has the peculiar property, as a Tarahumare Indian 
showed me, of becoming burning hot if rubbed only for a second against a some- 
what rough stone. The bean is poisonous and is used by the Tarahumare for 
poisoning dogs, ete. 
SHOSHONEAN STOCK 
Horr. Walpi, Arizona. (Cat. no. 166715, United States National 
Museum. ) 
Set of four unpainted cottonwood cylinders (figure 469), 6 inches in 
height and 24 inches in diameter, with cylindrical opening at 
one end, 1} inches deep and 1 inch in diameter; marked with 
burned lines, and having a down feather stuck in the top of 
each, as shown in figure 469. Collected by Mr James Mooney in 
1892. 
Fig. 469. Fig. 470. 
Fic. 469. Wooden tubes for hiding game; height, 6 inches; Hopi Indians, Walpi, Arizona; cat. 
no. 166715, United States National Museum. 
Fic. 470. Wooden tubes for hiding game; height, 3} inches; Hopi Indians, Arizona; cat. no. 
21828, Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
Arizona. (Cat. no. 21828, Free Museum of Science and Art, 
University of Pennsylvania.) 
Four cottonwood cups, 2 inches in diameter and 34 inches in height, 
with rounded tops, and marked with burnt lines, having conical 
holes 14 inches in diameter and 14 inches in depth in the bottom, 
one cup having an additional mark, as shown in figure 470. 
