ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with the distribution of the discoids as recorded archaeologically and the assumption that this may be an aboriginal game modified by Spanish contact among both the Tarahumar and the Tepehuan Indians of the Sierra Madres in northern Durango and Chihuahua. John W. Bennett and Robert M. zingg, who studied the Tarahumar in 1935, described their observation of the game that they too call "cuatro," but the Tarahumar name they cite is dihibapa, which they also translate as meaning disk. The distribution of game discoids that were recorded during the field research in Chihuahua and northern Durango shows they were encountered on sites in the Highlands, foothills and less frequently in the lowlands. During the process of an archaeological survey of the eastern slopes of the Sierra Madres in Chihuahua and Durango, in the same region of northwestern Mexico where Carl Lumholtz worked, lithic discoid artifacts were recorded on the surface of archaeological sites.
