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one ring. Each woman has a stick, tslam-mai. They play the game 
maybe once or twice during a summer. Its object is to cause rain. 
The game usually follows a dance, but if the cacique orders it, the 
women play the game without reference to the dance. It is some- 
times played by men alone, and sometimes for money. Dick gave 
the name of this game as ya-mu-nai tsi-ko-nai or ya-mu-nai ti-kwa- 
wal, 
Additional particulars concerning this game are 
furnished by Mrs Matilda Coxe Stevenson in her 
paper on Zuhi Games, where she describes it 
under the name of ‘sikon-yii’mune tikwane. 
Implements.—Slender sticks [figure 916], the length of 
an arrow shaft, zigzagged in black, symbolic of lightning; 
a ring, about 24 inches in diameter, composed of yucca 
ribbons, and a tikwané, or racing stick. . . 
This is a foot race run only by order of the Ah’wan tii’- 
chu (Great Father) K6yemshi, and is exclusively for 
rains. A chosen number of women, each supplied with a 
stick, stand in line to the left of a number of men. ‘The 
latter are provided with a tikwané, which they kick; and 
the women who play against the men use a yucea ring, 
tossing it with their sticks. Though the distance covered 
is short the latter seldom win. 
Mr John T. Owens” described the following 
game: 
A-we-w06-po-pa-ne.c—This is played by only two persons, 
but each usually has several backers, and considerable 
betting is done. One place is designated as the stone- 
home. One hundred stones are placed in a row a certain 
distance apart. Each stone must be picked up and car- 
ried separately and placed, not thrown, in the stone-home. 
Another point, several miles distant, is taken, and the 
game is for one to run to the distant spot and return, 
while the other gathers up the stones. As it is a contest 
of speed and judgment, not chance, it becomes very 
exciting. 
Fic. 916. Ring, tossing 
» rod, and kicking bil- 
FoorsnaLn let for race game; 
Zuni Indians, Zuni, 
New Mexico; from 
Information concerning the game of football is : 
Mrs Stevenson. 
extremely meager and unsatisfactory. The speci- 
mens commonly designated as footballs by collectors are, as a matter 
of fact, intended mostly for the game of hand-and-football or the ball 
race, 
Football is mentioned as occurring among four Algonquian tribes 
(Massachuset, Micmac, Narraganset, Powhatan), but particulars 
are given only for the Micmac. It is spoken of also among the 
* American Anthropologist, n. s., v. 5, p. 493, 1908. 
»Some Games of the Zuni. Popular Science Monthly, v. 39, p. 40, New York, 1891. 
¢ There is a slight resemblance in this contest to our sport, the potato race. 
