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Evidence for Owasakut
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.1589
Type Contemporary rule description
Location 34°53'47.08"N, 107°34'54.71"W
Date 1907-01-01 - 1907-12-31
Rules Thirty stones placed in a circle, with a large gap after every tenth stone. The spaces between the stones are the playing spaces. One stick per player. Three stick dice, black on one side and white on the other. Throws re as follows: three black = 10; three white = 5; two white = 2; one white = 3.
Content "Keres. Acoma, New Mexico...made for the writer by James H. Miller. He gave the name as owasakut. The counts are as follows: Three black counts 10; three white, 5; two white, 2; one white, 3. The game is counted around a circle of thirty stones, yow-wu-ni [figure 125], with little sticks called horses. There are three openings in the stone circle, which are called tsi-a-ma, door." Culin 1907: 120.
Confidence 100
Source Culin, S. 1907. Games of the North American Indians. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
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