800 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS [eru. ayn. 24 
Vocabulary : Board, a-te-a-lan-e, stone plain; straight lines, a-kwi-we, canyons 
or arroyos; diagonal lines, o-na-we, trails; ordinary men, a-wi-thlak-na-kwe; 
seventh piece, pi-thlan shi-wani (m6sona), Priest of the Bow. 
The latter piece by power of magic is enabled to cross the canyons. The 
game is commonly played upon house tops, which are often found marked with 
the diagram. 
The resemblance of the disks employed in this game to the pre- 
historic pottery disks which are found in the ruins in the south- 
western United States and Mexico suggests that the latter may have 
been employed similarly in games. There is no evidence, however, 
that the board game existed before the coming of the whites. It was 
probably introduced by them and does not furnish an explanation of 
the prehistoric disks. 
Fig. 1108. 
Fig. 1107. 
Fig. 1109. 
Fic. 1107. Pottery men for game of stone warriors; diameters, 1} and 1f inches; Zuni Indians, 
Zuni, New Mexico; cat. no, 16550, Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsyl- 
vania. 
Fig. 1108. Stone game board; Zuni Indians, Zuni, New Mexico; cat. no. 3099, Brooklyn Institute 
Museum. ~ 
Fig. 1109. Stone game board; Zuni Indians, Zuni, New Mexico; cat. no. 3099, Brooklyn Institute 
Museum. 
Zux1. Zuni, New Mexico. (Cat. no. 3099, 3100, Brooklyn Institute 
Museum. ) 
Two flat stones inscribed with diagrams, as shown in figures 1108, 
1109, and 1110. 
Collected by the writer in 1903. The name was given as awi- 
thlaknanai. Nick Graham stated that this is a Mexican game. The 
third form (figure 1110), he said, was introduced into Zuni the year 
before by an Indian from Santa Ana, a Keresan pueblo near the Rio 
Grande. 
