CULIN] HIDDEN-BALL GAME: TEWA 367 
squat on the ground in two groups, facing each other; any number may be on a 
side—one or a dozen—and the sides need not be equal in numbers. On the 
ground between the two groups, four moccasins are placed in a row. The leader 
of the side that has the * deal,” so to speak, takes a small bead in his right hand 
and deftly slides the hand under each moccasin in turn, pretending to leave the 
bead under each one of them; he finally does leave the bead under one, and 
the leader of the opposition side, watching him closely, is to guess which moc- 
easin covers the bead. The opposition leader then takes a slender stick and 
lifts up and throws off the three moccasins under which he thinks nothing has 
been left, leaving the one under which he guesses the bead has been left. 
Should the bead be discovered under one of three which he throws off, then he 
loses 4+ points for his side; should he be correct in his guess, and the bead 
found under the one moceasin left, he gains 4 for his side. Ten small 
twigs or chips are conveniently at hand, and as each side wins at a play, the 
leader takes 4 from the pile. When the ten are all taken, by either or both 
sides, the game is ended, the side having the most sticks being the winner. 
Usually five such games are played, the side getting the greater number taking 
the stakes, which are commonly goods—although once in a while they gamble 
for money. 
TANOAN STOCK 
Tewa. Hano, Arizona. 
Mr A. M. Stephen in his unpublished manuseript gives the Tewa 
name of the game with a stone nodule con- 
cealed under one of four cups as tibi elua, 
tibi meaning game. ; 
Nambe, New Mexico. (Cat. no. 
17775, Field Columbian Mu- 
seum. ) 
Four wooden tubes, 8 inches in height and 
14 inches in diameter, marked with 
lines as shown in figure 486. 
These were collected by Mr L. M. Lamp- 
son, who describes them as employed in 
the game of angea, or canute,? played by 
Fig. 486. Wooden tubesforhiding two parties, each composed of any number 
game; height, 8 inches; Tewa 
Indians, Nambe, New Mexico; Of players. 
eat. no. 17775, Field Columbian 
Museum. 
To begin the game, two of the cups, in one of 
which a nail is placed, are laid down with the 
open ends covered. A player from one side chooses a cup, and if the nail is in 
the first one chosen the cups go to his side. The object of each party of players 
is to secure and keep the cahates as long as possible. 
A bowl containing one hundred and four beans is placed in charge of two 
men, who act as cashiers for their respective sides. Two heaps of earth are 
placed in a room at opposite sides and surrounded by the members of the 
opposing parties. A player from the side which is in possession of the cups, 
with his arms concealed under a blanket, places the nail in one of them and 
covers the open ends of all of them with earth. 
A player comes over from the other side and endeayors to select at his third 
choice the cup in which the nail is hidden, with the following result: If found 
in the first cup taken up, the cashier for his party must pay to the opposing 
“Spanish canuto, part of a cane from knot to knot. 
