368 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS  [eru. ann. 24 
party’s cashier 10 beans; if in the second, 6 beans; if in the fourth, 4 beans; 
but if in the third, the player returns to his own side with the cups, which are 
retained by his party until they are won from them in the manner described. 
The cashiers on both sides pay the 10, 6, or 4 beans which may be lost by their 
players finding the nail in any cup but the third one, from the common pool 
until the one hundred and four beans have been exhausted, after which they 
must pay from their winnings until one side or the other obtains the whole 
number and thereby wins the game, which is usually played for a stake. 
The cups are named individually according to the marking on the ends, as 
follows: 
I, one; Il, two; + mulato; -:: cinchado, girded. 
These names do not signify different values, but are used in the songs which 
the party in possession of the cups sing during the game. 
Trewa. Santa Clara, New Mexico. (Cat. no. 176706, United States 
National Museum. ) 
Four hollow cylinders of wood, closed at one end, 94 inches long and 
1 inches in diameter, with an internal bore of eleven-sixteenths 
of an inch. They are marked by burning with the designs 
shown in figure 487. The closed ends are also differently 
marked, as in the figure. They are accompanied with a small, 
round, unpainted stick 24 inches in length. 
Another set in the Free Museum of Science and Art of the Univer- 
sity of Pennsylvania (cat. no. 21585) are 11 inches in length and 
14 inches in diameter, and are similarly marked (figure 488). 
The stick accompanying them, 2 inches in length, varies in be- 
ing painted with bands of the colors green, red, black, yellow, 
green, yellow, black, red, green. 
Mr Thomas 8. Dozier, of Espanola, New Mexico, who collected 
both the above-mentioned sets, writes in reference to the latter that it 
was made for him by an Indian. He was unable to purchase old sets, 
because the Mexicans and Indians who own them place an excessive 
value on them from superstitious motives. Mr Dozier furnished the 
following account of the game: : 
Canute is a winter game and is played usually at night and within doors. 
The implements are the four hollow tubes of wood, the small stick which passes 
readily in and out of the hollow tubes, a large cup holding an agreed number 
of grains of corn, beans, or peas, and two small cups, held by opposing players, 
which are empty when the game begins. 
Two small heaps of loose dry earth, perhaps half a bushel each, are erected 
at each end of the room, about which the opposing bettors sit or stand. The 
small stiek is inserted secretly in one of the tubes, and then all are buried in 
that pile of dirt which belongs to the side secreting the stick. A player from 
the opposing side is then chosen by his side to draw the sticks. ‘The counts are 
as follows: If the stick is found in the first tube drawn, 10 grains are taken 
from the large cup and placed in the cup of the side drawing the tubes; if found 
in the second tube, 6 grains; and if found in the fourth tube, 4 grains are 
taken; but if the stick be found in the third tube, then the tubes are taken to 
the opposite pile of dirt, where the opposing side will bury the tubes, and the 
others must draw. Thus the tubes are moved from one side to the other, as 
the sides are lucky or unlucky. The players hiding the stick are supposed to 
