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Evidence for Totolóspi (War)
2 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.1432
Type Ethnography
Game Totolóspi (War)
Location 35°52'35.01"N, 110°38'25.49"W
Date 1889-01-01 - 1890-12-31
Rules Rectangular board with a large number of squares and a diagonal from top left to bottom right. Pieces may move along the diagonal, but not across it. Two players. Players may move one or more pieces, based on certain positions the pieces are in. Opponent's pieces may be captured, and multiple captures are possible in one turn.. Pieces always move toward the bottom right corner.
Content "To-to-lós-pi (Game o "Fox and Geese").— Among the very interesting games played by the Hopi Indians is one of ethnological interest which is allied to a game described by the early Spanish historians of the Mexicans. This game, to-to-lós-pi, resembles somewhat the game of checkers, and can be played by two persons or by two parties. In playing the game a rectangular 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. A diagonal line, tûh-ki-o-ta, is drawn across the rectangle from northwest to southeast, and the players 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 or marked color. The players were stationed at each end of the diagonal line, tûh-ki-o-ta. They move their pieces along this line, but never across it. The moves which are made are intricate, and the player may move one or more pieces successively. Certain positions entitle him to this privilege. He may capture or, as he terms it, kill one or more of his opponent's pieces at one play. In this respect the game is not unlike checkers, and to capture the pieces of the opponent seems to be the main object of the game. The checkers, however, must be concentrated and always moved towards the southeast corner. The game is now rarely played on the East Mesa but is still used at O-rai-be." Fewkes 1892: 159.
Confidence 100
Spaces Outside
Source Fewkes, J. 1892. "A Few Summer Ceremonials at the Tusayan Pueblos." A Journal of American Ethnology and Archaeology 2: 1-160.
Id DLP.Evidence.1433
Type Artifact
Game Totolóspi (War)
Location 35°49'55.94"N, 110°23'52.63"W
Date 1889-01-01 - 1890-12-31
Rules 11x11 lines, with a diagonal from the top left corner to the bottom right corner. 55 pieces per player, arranged on either side of the diagonal on the intersections.
Content Graffiti Totolóspi board at Walpi, Arizona. 111x11 lines, with a diagonal from the top left corner to the bottom right corner, etched into a rock. 55 pieces per player, arranged on either side of the diagonal on the intersections, included in the sketch from Fewkes published in Culin 1898: Fig. 189. Fewkes 1892: 159.
Confidence 100
Source Culin, S. 1898. Chess and Playing-Cards. Washington: Government Printing Office.
, Culin, S. 1907. Games of the North American Indians. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
, Fewkes, J. 1892. "A Few Summer Ceremonials at the Tusayan Pueblos." A Journal of American Ethnology and Archaeology 2: 1-160.
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