cuLiN] EUROPEAN GAMES: ZUNI 799 
ZUNIAN STOCK 
Zuxt. Zuni, New Mexico. (Cat. no. 16550, 17861, Free Museum of 
Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania.) 
Cardboard, inscribed with diagram (figure 1106), for the game of 
awithlaknakwe, or stone warriors, and twenty-six pieces, or men 
(figure 1107), consisting of disks made from shards of pottery, 
used in the game. 
The disks are in two sets, twelve plain and twelve perforated, 
with a hole in the center, both 14 inches in diameter. In addition, 
there are two pieces, one plain and one perforated, somewhat larger 
than the others. 
Fig. 1106. Game of stone warriors; Zuni Indians, Zuni, New Mexico; cat. no. 17861, Free 
Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
These implements were made in 1893 by Mr Frank Hamilton 
Cushing, who furnished the following account of the game: 
Played by two or four persons upon a square board divided into one hundred 
and forty-four squares, each intersected by diagonal lines. At the opening of 
the game each player places six men in the center of the six squares at his 
side of the board. The latter usually consists of a slab of stone pecked with the 
diagram [figure 1106]. The men consist of disks of pottery about 1 inch in 
diameter [figure 1107], made from broken vessels, those upon one side being 
distinguished by being perforated with a small hole, while those on the other 
side are plain. The object of the game is to cross over and take the opponent’s 
place, capturing as many men as possible by the way. The moves are made one 
square at a time along the diagonal lines, the pieces being placed at the points 
of intersection. When a player gets one of his opponent’s pieces between two of 
his own, it may be taken, and the first piece thus captured may be replaced by a 
seventh man. called the Priest of the Bow, which may move both on the diagonal 
lines and on those at right angles. A piece may not be moved backward. 
When four persons-play, those on the north and west play against those on the 
south and east. 
