. Chess and playing cards. may move both on the diagonal lines and on those at right angles. Apiece may not be moved backward. When four persons play, those onthe North and West play against those on the South and East. VOCABULARY. The board, A te a Ian e, stone plain. The straight lines, a kivi we, Canyons, or uarroyas. The diagonal lines, 6 na we, trails. The ordinary men, A w\ thlaJc na lewe. The seventh piece. Ii-thlan shi-wani (Mosond), Priest of the Bow. The latter pieee by power of magie is enabled to cross the canyons. The game is commonly played upon housetops, which are often found m
. Chess and playing cards. may move both on the diagonal lines and on those at right angles. Apiece may not be moved backward. When four persons play, those onthe North and West play against those on the South and East. VOCABULARY. The board, A te a Ian e, stone plain. The straight lines, a kivi we, Canyons, or uarroyas. The diagonal lines, 6 na we, trails. The ordinary men, A w\ thlaJc na lewe. The seventh piece. Ii-thlan shi-wani (Mosond), Priest of the Bow. The latter pieee by power of magie is enabled to cross the canyons. The game is commonly played upon housetops, which are often found marked with the diagram. The game, or something similar to it, was widely distributed among the Pueblo Indians of the Southwest, s shown by the numerous pottery disks, which were used for it CHESS AND PLAYING-CARDS. <S79 found among- the ruins. Its antiquity is attested by the presence ofsuch disks among the remains in the cliff houses. Four such disksfromMancos Canyon, in the University Museum, are shown in fig. THE GAME OF TO-TO-L6S-PI. Moki Indians, New an unpublished drawing by Dr. J. Walter Fewkes. Dr. J. Walter Fewkes2 has described a somewhat similar game asexisting among the Moki Indians of New Mexico under the name ofTo-to-los-pi. It can be played by two or more parties. A rectangular 1 Disks roughly shaped from fragments of earthenware vessels were found by B. Moore in mounds of tlie Georgia Coast (Jour. Academy of NaturalSciences, Philu., XI), of which specimens contributed by him arc contained in theMuseum of Archaeology of the University of Pennsylvania (Cat. Nos. 20160-20162),They vary from to 2 inches in diameter. Similar pottery disks, some perforated,are found in many localities in the United States. Mr. K. writes thatLarge numbers of disks of stone and pottery are found in the ash beds of ancientvillage sites in Ontario. Canada, east and northeast of Lake Simcoe. They are sel-dom bored, and the potter
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