CULIN] EUROPEAN GAMES: ZUNI 801 
Zuxr. Zui. New Mexico. (Cat. no. 5049, Brooklyn Institute Mu- 
seum. ) 
Long stone slab, inscribed with the diagram shown in figure 1111. 
This was found by the writer on a house top in Zuni, and was 
explained by the natives as used in a game with white and black 
pieces, played like the preceding. The positions of the pieces at the 
beginning of the game are indicated by black and white circles. The 
name of the game was given as kolowis awithlaknannai, the kolowisi 
being a mythic serpent. Another form of the same game (figure 
1112) was made for the writer by Zuni Nick (Nick Graham), who 
described it under the name of awithlaknan mosona, the original 
awithlaknannai. 
Fig. 1111. 
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Fig. 1110. Fig. 1112. 
Fic. 1110. Stone game board; Zuni Indians, Zuni, New Mexico; cat. no. 3100, Brooklyn Institute 
Museum. 
Fig. 1111. Kolowis awithlaknannai; length of diagram, 33 inches; Zuni Indians, Zuni, New 
Mexico; cat. no. 5049, Brooklyn Institute Museum. 
Fic. 1112. Awithlaknan mosona; Zuni Indians, Zuni, New Mexico. 
Mrs Matilda Coxe Stevenson ¢ describes the game of awe ‘hlacnawe, 
stones kill, as follows: 
Implements.—A number of small stones (a different color for each side), and 
geometrical markings on a stone slab or on the ground. 
There is no specified size for the ‘ board,” it being larger or smaller according 
to the number of angles. The stones are placed on all the intersections of the 
geometrical drawing except the central one. ‘The first player moves to the center, 
where his “man” is jumped by his opponent. The stones may be moved in any 
direction so long as the lines are followed. 
“ 
In a note Mrs Stevenson says: 
Some of the older men of the Zuni declare that this game, when it came orig- 
inally to Zui from Mexico, was played with one set of stones and a stick for 
the opposite side, and that the use of the double set of stones is an innovation 
of their own. 
«Zuni Games. American Anthropologist, n. s., v. 5, p. 496, 1903. 
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