734 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS  [2TH. ANN. 24 
Buackreet. Montana. (Cat. no. 16190, Field Columbian Museum.) 
Two pieces of wood resembling whip tops (figure 962). Collected 
by J. M. McLean. 
CHEYENNE. Oklahoma. 
Mr Louis L. Meeker @ writes: 
They have also whip tops (ne’-do-hi-yon’-hsist, or whirling game). They 
are played in winter. When the ice breaks up in the spring, they are thrown 
into the water as it rises, with the imple- 
ments for the other winter games, and car- 
ried away. Playing winter games in sum- 
mer is popularly supposed to make hairs 
grow on the body where tweezers will be 
required to remove them—a nursery tale. 
Curprewa. Apostle islands, Wiscon- 
sin. 
Fic. %2. Whip tops; heights 2 and 2} ie 
inches; Blackfoot Indians, Montana; di G. Kohl b says: 
aera SUPA oe ety SOC ROG The Indian boys manage to make tops 
out of acorns and nuts as cleverly as our 
boys do. They also collect the oval stones which are found on the banks of 
the rivers and lakes and use them on the ice in winter. Barefooted and active, 
they run over the ice, and drive the stones against each other with whips and 
sticks. The stone that upsets the other is the victor. 
Michigan. 
Baraga ° gives the following definitions: 
Top (boy’s plaything), towéigan; I play with a top, nin towéige. 
Cree. Edmonton, Alberta. (Cat. no. 15070, Field Columbian Mu- 
seum. ) 
Wooden whip top and whip (figure 963). Collected by Isaac Cowie. 
Fic. %3. Whip top and whip; height of top, 2} inches; length of whip, 22} inches; Cree Indians, 
Alberta; cat. no. 15070, Field Columbian Museum. 
Grosventres. Fort Belknap, Montana. (American Museum of 
Natural History.) ‘ 
Cat. no. ;89;. Top of solid black horn (figure 964), 23? inches in 
length, accompanied by a whip with four buckskin lashes, and 
a wooden handle painted red, 13 inches in length. 
@ Notes on Cheyenne Indian Games communicated to the Bureau of American Ethnology. 
> Kitchi-Gami, Wanderings round Lake Superior, p. 84, London, 1860. 
¢A Dictionary of the Otchipwe Language, Cincinnati, 1853. 
