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Evidence for Tsiheki
2 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.1572
Type Ethnography
Location Tule River Reservation
Date 1907-01-01 - 1907-12-31
Rules 25 sticks stuck in the ground, the spaces between the sticks being the playing spaces. Four sticks, convex on one side and concave on the other, used as dice. The value of the throws equals the number of concave sides up, except all concave sides up = 16. When the opponent throws the same amount as the player's last throw, the player moves their pieces backward the same amount.
Content "The game is called tsiheki, to hurdle. Twenty-five sticks are stuck in a row in the ground and receiev the same name as the game. The throws are counted around these sticks with four stick counters or horses called witchet. All concave sides up coiunt 16; one concave side up 1; two concave sides up, 2, and so on; but if an opponent ties your throw you go back as much." Account given by Dr. J. W. Hudson, Culin 1907: 141.
Confidence 100
Ages Adult
Genders Female
Source Culin, S. 1907. Games of the North American Indians. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Id DLP.Evidence.1573
Type Artifact
Location Tule River Reservation
Date 1907-01-01 - 1907-12-31
Rules 25 sticks for the board. Four sticks per player as pieces. Four sticks used as dice.
Content Eight split reeds, other four split reeds marked with red stripes, 25 willow sticks, pointed on one end. From the Yocuts people of the Tule River Reservation in California, CAt. no. 70395, 70396, 70397, Field Museum Chicago(?). Culin 1907: 140.
Confidence 100
Source Culin, S. 1907. Games of the North American Indians. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
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