cULIN] HIDDEN-BALL GAME: HOPI 363 
fireplace. He took a stick and in a field of this sand which had been carefully 
spread on the floor made a rectangular figure, across which he drew a pair of 
lines making a central rectangle, on each side of which he made five parallel 
grooves [figure 482]. In the smaller central rectangle he made, unknown to 
me, cabalistic figures, tracing them in the sand, laughingly referring to their 
names as he did so, the assembled players joking with him or making sugges- 
tions. In counting, two short twigs were used, and these were advanced from 
one to the other of these sand grooves in much the same way that sticks are 
used in pachtli.¢ Each side had a stick and Kakapti kept account. The mode 
of counting, as I remember, resembled that of pachtli. The sticks were ad- 
vanced as one side or the other won. When the party which uncovered the 
stone did not expose it after two trials it 
remained with the side which held the © ous 
cones; to uncover at the first trial x 
counted more than at the second at- x S Scones), 
tempt. Different cones seemed to have Mes 2 
different values. The cones used were * 
not marked like those at Hano, but were MEOIAL : 
= x 
of wood and of about the same shape. stick lili alilill snck 
There was the same singing, shouting, oo 2 
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and laughter as in the plaza game. voted 
I have found one of these cones made 
of lava stone in one of the Little Colo- oo rarimace 
rado ruins, and Dr Frank Russell has ter 4 es 
: " Fig. 482. Plan of kiva hiding game; Hopi 
shown me another which he found in the Indians, Walpi, Arizona; from sketch by 
Gila region. I believe that some of the Dr J. Walter Fewkes. 
small stone marbles found in the ruins 
had to do with this game. To relieve the monotony of the long vigils in the 
kivas between the ceremonies I have sometimes played an informal game of 
cocotukwi with some youth who was there, picking up the cones from the ban- 
quette and trying to see how many times each of us could uncover the stone 
in the same number of trials. Once or twice I have seen young men play a 
private game of cocotukwi in this way, but not often. 
Mr A. M. Stephen in an unpublished manuscript gives the Hopi 
name of a game played with a stone nodule concealed under one of 
four cups as socotiikiiya and again as sociitiikivuiwuh : 
The game is played by two parties of grown persons, each usually composed 
of a large number, seated and facing each other a short distance apart. The 
implements used are four cylindric wooden cups somewhat resembling large 
diceboxes, a small stone nodule, and a stout wooden club. After tossing a 
corn husk or a leaf with a blackened side to decide which shall begin, the party 
which wins the toss set the four cups in a line in front of their group and 
conceal them from the opposite side by holding a blanket up as a screen, and 
then they hide the nodule under one of the cups. The blanket being withdrawn, 
a person from the challenged side walks across and takes the club in his hand, 
and after much deliberation turns over one of the cups with the club. If 
the nodule is not exposed, he turns over another, and the nodule not being 
found, the crisis of his play is reached, for the object is to uncover the nodule 
at the third attempt. If then found, his party scores a count, and they take 
the implements to their side, and conceal the nodule as the first party had 
done. If, however, the player uncovers the nodule before. or fails to find it 
*Tewa game, corresponding to patolli. 
