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Canku Ota |
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(Many Paths) |
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An Online Newsletter Celebrating Native America |
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March 8, 2003 - Issue 82 |
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The Game of "Peone" |
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This game is from the Kumeyaay website.
They have generously allowed us to share it with you. You can find more
stories and information at their site at http://www.kumeyaay.com/index.html.
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credits: These game
pieces were made from bone, to be hidden in the game of Peone! Courtesy
of the Barona Virtual Museum
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"Peone" is a highly competitive game of complex strategy, skill and calculation. It is played with eight players - four on each side, with an additional man or woman to act as umpire (Koymi). The two sides are usually made up of male or female players from different tribes or bands. The object of the game is for one side to win all the tally sticks. Much betting accompanies the game among both the men and the women. The game may be won in a short time, or it may - as frequently happens - prolong itself through an entire night, until the early morning, with several hundred dollars changing hands! How
Peone is Played: Tally
Sticks: These sticks are about fourteen inches long, and a quarter of an inch in diameter, having either the tip or sometimes the entire length painted in red, or in decorative designs. Peone
Sticks: Each Peone Stick has a hole through the center with a string drawn through. The string is slipped over the wrist in a slip noose, the object being to prevent any possibility of trickery when the call comes to "show" (by shifting the stick from one hand to the other). Playing
Peone: The players chosen to do the guessing must then guess in which hand the white or black stick is concealed. When he or she has made up their mind they clap their hands and point to where they have decided the black or white stick should be. At the same time calling out their decision to the Koymi, or referee. The Koymi, at the end awards tally sticks corresponding to the number of correct guesses from one side to the other. The game is won when one side wins all of the tally sticks. |
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