796 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS  [nrn. ann. 24 
by scratching or by using a different colored stone as a crayon. <A diagonal line, 
thh-ki-o-ta, is drawn across the rectangle from northwest to southeast, and 
the players station themselves at each end of this line. When two parties play, 
a single person acts as player, and the other members of the party act ac 
advisers. The first play is won by tossing up a leaf or corn husk with one side 
blackened. The pieces which are used are bean or corn kernels, stones and 
wood, or small fragments of any substance of marked color. The players are 
stationed at each end of the diagonal line, tih-ki-o-ta. They move their pieces 
upon this line, but never across it. (On this line the game is fought.) The 
moves which are made are intricate, and the player may move one or more 
pieces successively. Certain positions entitle him to this privilege. He may 
capture or, as he terms it, kill one or more of his opponent’s pieces at one play. 
In this respect the game is not unlike checkers, and to capture the pieces of the 
opponent seems to be the main object of the game. The checkers, however, 
must be concentrated and always moved towards the southeast corner. 
Fig. 1096. 
Fic. 1096. Game board and men; length of board, 9 inches; Mono Indians, Madera county, 
California; cat. no. 71519, Field Columbian Museum. 
Fic. 1097. Stone game board for totolospi; length, 4; inches; Tewa Indians, Hano, Arizona; 
cat. no. 38612, Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
This game is now rarely played on the East Mesa, but is still used at Oraibi. 
It is said to have been played in ancient times by the sun and moon, or by 
other mythical personages. Figures of this game formerly existed on the rocks 
near the village of Walpi, and may be the same referred to by Bourke. 
Mr A. M. Stephen, in his unpublished manuscript, gives this defini- 
tion: Totolospi, a primitive sort of checkers. 
Mono. Hooker cove and vicinity, Madera county, California. (Cat. 
no. 71519, Field Columbian Museum.) d < 
Board, 9 inches in length, with inscribed design (figure 106), and 
holes for pegs at the intersection of lines; accompanied by pegs 
of two sizes. 
Collected by Dr J. W. Hudson, who designates it as yakamaido, 
square game, or Indian checkers. 
* It would appear from Doctor Fewkes's sketch of the board that only one player moved 
toward the southeast and that his opponent went in the opposite direction. 
