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Evidence for Aiyawatstani
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.1458
Type Ethnography
Location 34°53'47.08"N, 107°34'54.71"W
Date 1907-01-01 - 1907-12-31
Rules 5x5 intersecting lines, with diagonals in each small square. Twenty-two pieces per player, one black and one white, arranged on the four rows (counting the points where diagonals cross as rows) closest to each player; the central point remains empty, the black player places two pieces on the outer points and the white player places two on the inner two points.
Content "Keres. Acoma, New Mexico. An Acoma Indian names James H. Miller, employed at Zuñi, described to the writer under the name of aiyawatstani, chuck away grains, the game illustrated in figure 1088. Twenty-two white and twenty-to black pieces are used on each side." Culin 1907: 792.
Confidence 100
Ages Adult
Genders Male
Source Culin, S. 1907. Games of the North American Indians. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
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