362 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS  [bpru. ann. 24 
glee. The party not holding cones were silent. The cones were arranged in a row, 
as Shown in the figure [481]. When the stone or marble was placed under one of 
the cones, all the members of the party owning the cones crowded about them 
and held up their blankets to prevent the opposite side seeing under which 
cone the stone was placed. Certain mysterious 
= = © io passes were made when the stone was placed 
4 a below the cone. The women then seated them- 
eas =<) Ex] selves in a row and invited their opponents to 
a b a d 
play, or to find the stone concealed under one 
Pia. 480. Tubes for hiding game; of the cones. The party then sang loudly, and 
Tewa Indians, Hano, Arizona; 4 man beat the drum as the representative of 
from sketch by Dr J. Walter * E an 
Temicos! the opposite party advanced to lift the cone 
under which he supposed the stone was hidden. 
There were loud jeers and much bantering back and forth. Bets were made 
on the game, and it became very exciting, at times lasting the whole afternoon. 
The details of winning were not noted, but if the one of the opposite party 
uncovered the stone at the first trial, the cones went to the party to which he 
belonged. The winners then set up the cones, sang songs, and beat their drum 
as their opponents before them had done when they held the cones. Figure 
[481] shows the members of one side with the cones before them and the drum- 
mer on one side, made from a group in the plaza, January 12, 1900. 
Cocotukwi was played in the Walpi kivas almost continuously from January 
12 to February 38; after Powamf began, it was not noted, and it was suid to be 
ESR ISS SS S a SSSA: 
Fig. 481. Plaza cocotukwi at Sichomovi, Arizona; from photograph by Dr J, Walter Fewkes. 
a game of Pamuyani—January moon. It always took place at night, never in 
two kivas on the same night, and followed in rotation from the Monkiva to the 
Alkiva. The men gathered first in the kiva and the women came to the hatch 
and called down to those within that they wanted firewood. The men replied: 
“Come down and gamble for it at cocotukwi.” In the kiva cocotukwi men and 
women were on opposite sides. If the men lost, they had to ‘‘ get firewood,” but 
1 did not hear what would be the penalty if the women lost. I followed the 
game one night (January 12) in the Mofkiva. After all were seated, Kakapti, 
chief of the Sand clan, brought in a bag of sand and emptied it before the 
