548 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
low or the definite and specific values of the sticks decided upon in 
variations of the games. These sticks are cylindrical, and to illustrate 
the characters on them, ¢ is presented, which shows the whole round 
of the character b. This exhibits the typical Haida style. An excel- 
lent collection of these pictured sticks is in the U.S, National Museum, 
No. 73552. 
Dr. Fewkes (¢) reports as follows: 
Among the very interesting games played by the Hopi Indians is one of ethnolog- 
ical interest, which is allied to a game deseribed by the early Spanish historians 
of the Mexicans. This game, to-to-lés-pi, resembles somewhat the game of checkers 
F1G. 774.—Haida gambling stick. 
and can be played by two persons or by two parties. In playing the game a rect- 
angular figure, divided into a large number of squares, is drawn upon the rock, either 
by scratching or by using a different colored stone as a crayon. (Figures of this 
game formerly existed on the rocks near the village of Wa4l-pi.) A diagonal line, 
thh-ki-o-ta, is drawn across the rectangle from northwest to southeast, and the play- 
ers 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 as 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 were 
stationed at each end of the diagonal line, tih-ki-o-ta. They move their pieces upon 
this line, but never across it. The moves which are made are intricate and the 
player may move one or more pieces successively. Certain poritions entitle him to 
this privilege. He may capture or, as he terms it, kill one or more of his opponent's 
