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the symbols of paraphernalia representing these, attached. But, unfortunately, 
I noted only that the Bear (He of the West) as God of ‘Thunder and the 
Hagle-Serpent (He of the Upper Underworld; but here, of Day, therefore of the 
Hast) God of Lightning, were represented. I never saw the game played with 
these tubes, and can not tell from observation what specifie form of the game 
they were designed for. I only know that the tubes were those of one of the 
particular clan brotherhoods vaguely known as the Badgers (not the totemic 
Badgers, but the priestly associates of the high-priest of the Badgers, hirnself, 
of course, the elder and house priest of the Badger totem). But these par- 
ticularly and indelibly marked tubes are never used for any other than their one 
particular form of the game, or by others than their official holders. This 
explains why the tribal sets are left plain. Like the parts or post slats of the 
rain altars that correspond to them, they are painted afresh for each occasion 
on which they are used. Ordinarily all are painted with white kaolin slip and 
then differentiated by bandings of black, in lieu of the colors they stand for. 
But when the tubes become gods of the Ka-kf, they are distinguished by face 
delineations, very crude and conventional, in their appropriate colors. In such 
cases the tubes are merely the timber flesh, ready to be made this set of 
gods or that other set of gods that is opened to incantation or influence by them 
through the kind of masks represented on them. 
The paint used on the tubes is always sacred. The white is the he-k’o-ha-kya, 
paint to white make, kaolin slip; the black, the he’-tethl-a-kya, paint to desig- 
nate (black) make. Both kinds are made from kaolin or coal from particular 
or sacred places. The paint is, as said above, renewed during preparation fer 
the occasion (the retirement and fasting period of the participants), and at the 
end of the game is washed off and drunk by the officiators, those who lost spu- 
ing it, however (so I was told, but the man who told me was a winner and 
may have been “ crowing’’). When only one tube in the set is painted, I sup- 
pose it becomes the “ all-container” for that special set. 
A common name for the hidden ball is i’-yan-ko-lo-kya u’-li-ne, the content, 
or i’-yan-ko-lo-kya mo’l-u’-li-ne, or ball for placing within, compounded of 
i’-yan-ko-lo-kya and mo-o-le, ball, rounded object of wood or other substance, 
u-li, to place within, and n’ne, that which is, or instrument for. Other names 
are i’-yan-ko-lo-kya a’l’-u-li-ne or i’-yan-ko-lo-kya a’-kya-mo-li-an u’-li-ne, the first 
from i’-yan-ko-lo-kya, al, a stone, pebble, and u’-li-ne, and the second from i’-yan- 
ko-lo-kya, a’a, a stone (shaped), kya, by water, mo-li-a, rounded by, ne, that 
which is, and u’-li-ne. The archaic and highly sacred name of the hiding stone, 
when consisting of a perfectly rounded pebble or concretion found in rain torrent 
beds or in pot holes, either those of the wind on high mesas or those of the 
water in mountain torrents, is ku-lu-lu-na-kya-al u’-li-ne or ku-lu-lu-na-kya 
a’-kya-mo-li-a tsan u’-li-ne, little thunder-stone ball content. 
The counters are called ti-we or ti’-po-a-ne. Ti stands for ti’-i-le, a counting 
straw, from ti-na, to stand or represent, as in or of a procession or group. The 
second name is composed of ti and po-na-ne, a bundle, bunch, from po-a, to 
place or lean together. An entire bunch of counters for the game is com- 
posed of one hundred and two straws. Of these one hundred are made of clean 
broom straws; those used in the game of peace being taken preferably from a 
mealing-trough brush or whisk; those used in the war phases of the game 
being preferably taken from hair brushes of the enemy made of broom grass. 
There are also in each complete bunch of counters two counters made of 
flat splints of yucca blades notched at the ends on opposite sides to represent 
the feathering of arrows, one retaining the natural spine at the point of 
the leaf and called father, tim-ta-tchu, or master counter, ti’-mo-so-na, the other 
plain, made of an inner portion of the leaf, and called a-wa-tsi-ta, their 
