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Evidence for Sitih
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.1590
Type Ethnography
Location Arizona Navajo
Date 1907-01-01 - 1907-12-31
Rules Forty stones, arranged in a circle, the spaces between the stones are the playing spaces. Three sticks, each marked with three bands on one side and two one the other, used as dice. The throws are as follows: all three bands up = 5; all two bands up = 10; one with three bands and two with two bands = 2; two with three bands and one with two bands = 3; one with two bands and two with three bands = 3.
Content "Navho, Arizona...They were collected by Dr George A. Dorsey, who desribes the game under the name of sitih. The circle is senesti. The game is 40 and the counts are as follows: All with three bands up count 5; all with two bands up, 10; one with three bands and two with two bands, 2; two with three bands and one with two bands, 3; one with two bands and two with three bands, 3." Culin 1907: 95.
Confidence 100
Source Culin, S. 1907. Games of the North American Indians. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
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