CULIN] HIDDEN-BALL GAME: ZUNI 379 
is of course worse still with the third and fourth guesses, for he is compelled to 
continue guessing until the ball is found. 
The parties which play the game are, of course, two, and they take, year after 
year, the same stations on the eastern and western sides of the great central 
plaza of the town, under the walls; and these stations are called i’-yan-ko-lo-we 
te’-hua-we, from te’, space; aha, to seize, take by choice; ua, or ula, within 
{some place, the plaza in this case). 
Immediately in front of either party are its four mountains, ya’-la-we, of 
sand, symbolic of the four regions and mountains beyond the plane of this 
world. They are disposed, contiguously to one another, in a square [figure 497], 
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Hamilton Cushing. 
each being about a foot in diameter and some 9 inches high. The northernmost 
mountain is called ya’-la thlup-tsi-na, mountain yellow; the western, ya’-la 
thli-a-na, mountain blue; the southern ya’-la a-ho-na, mountain ruddy; and the 
eastern, ya’-la k’o’-ha-na, mountain white. 
Sometimes only a single sand mound is raised [figure 498], but in such case 
it is still the fourfold mountain height, or a-wi-ten te’-yal-la-ne. As indicated 
in the figures, the tubes are set leaning slightly toward their respective quarters 
when the guesser and the keeper of the tubes retire together under the mantle 
or robe before described. 
