. Bulletin. Ethnology. FiGUUE 4.—The stick used In the Third Game. Next the young man was to take white shell to na'at e'e, the brown rat. This rat was to enter the youth's ball used in the fourth game, so that the ball would roll into the hole. The youth was told not to hit the ball, but just behind it; then the ball would roll into the hole, and he would win. The sign the Gambler used in the guessing game is shown in figure 5. It was a picture of one of the chief sacred beings that the Gambler had won. Ash'ke chili was his name.^^ He had a bill like a crow, and in his hands he held pretty fl
. Bulletin. Ethnology. FiGUUE 4.—The stick used In the Third Game. Next the young man was to take white shell to na'at e'e, the brown rat. This rat was to enter the youth's ball used in the fourth game, so that the ball would roll into the hole. The youth was told not to hit the ball, but just behind it; then the ball would roll into the hole, and he would win. The sign the Gambler used in the guessing game is shown in figure 5. It was a picture of one of the chief sacred beings that the Gambler had won. Ash'ke chili was his name.^^ He had a bill like a crow, and in his hands he held pretty flowers, four in each. The first four circles are the water jars—the black, the blue, the yellow, and the white. They contain the Male Rain. The next four contain the \HK/^oOo^ o ^. O FiauRB 5.—The sign the great Gambler used in the Guessing Game. '^ Interpreter's note: Ash'ke chili, the Guard of the water Jars, is the Zunl God of Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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