CULIN] HIDDEN-BALL GAME: HOPI B61 
plays; if not, the other side again hides the object, und so on. The object in the 
game, as well as the details in playing it, have not yet been studied. 
Horr. Oraibi, Arizona. (Cat. no. 38614, Free Museum of Science 
and Art, University of Pennsylvania.) 
Four cottonwood cylinders (figure 478), with carved tops, two alike, 
with cloud terrace at top painted red, the body of the cylinder 
being blue; and two with a kind of inverted cone at top painted 
blue, the body being red; height, 44 inches; accompanied by 
fifty counting sticks. Collected by the writer in 1901. 
The game, bakshiwu, is played by women. A ball, piliata, nodule, is hidden 
under one of the four cups, and the object is to guess under which it is con- 
cealed. The game is counted with fifty sticks, mori, beans. In guessing the 
cup is knocked down with the hand, and the game proceeds in rhythm with a 
song. ‘The cups with the cloud terrace at top are called kopachakitaka, head- 
dress man, and the others with inverted cones like flowers, flute blossom. 
——Walpi, Arizona. (Cat. no. 68874, United States National 
Museum. ) 
Set of four cottonwood cylinders (figure 479), two surmounted with 
cloud terrace symbols, 2% and 34 inches in height, and two plain, 
formerly with a projection at the top that has been cut off, 23 
inches in height. Collected by Col. James Stevenson. 
Fic. 479. Wooden tubes for hiding game; heights, 2} and 3} inches; Hopi Indians, Walpi, Ari- 
zona; cat. no. 68874, United States National Museum. 
Arizona. 
Dr J. Walter Fewkes writes as follows in a personal letter : 4 
Although I have not given special attention to the Hopi games, I was able to 
make a few observations on a cup game which the Tewa of Hano eall penici; 
the Walpi, cocotukwi. During the month Pamiiyawf, or January and part of 
February, 1900, it was played almost constantly, both in and out of the kivas, 
in the three towns on the East mesa. The cones used had various markings, 
and those at Hano had bands called by the following names [figure 480]: a, with 
three bands on, poyopeni; b, with two bands, wihipeni; c, with one band around 
top, kepeni; d, with one median band, penopeni. The game was played for sey- 
eral consecutive days in the plaza of Sichomovi by women of different clans, 
the two sides—one from Hano, the other from Sichomovi—standing opposite 
each other or seated, as the case may be. Both parties had a wooden drum, 
and the party having the cones sang vigorously and beat their drums with great 
# July, 1902. 
