cuttin] TOPS: SAUK AND FOXES 735 
Cat. no. 73%5. Top, a disk of wood (figure 965), 4 inches in diam- 
eter, painted red, with wooden spindle 7 inches in length. 
Both of the above were collected by Dr A. L. Kroeber in 1901. 
Norrmcewock. Norridgewock, Maine. 
Rasles * gives the following definitions: 
Pébésk8maiigan, toupie sur la glace, &c.; sur la terre, aripSdangan. 
Fig. 964. 
Fig. 966. Fig. 965. 
Fic. 964. Whip top and whip; height of top, 2} inches; Grosventre Indians, Montana; cat. no. 
xitx, American Museum of Natural History. 
Fic. 965. Top; diameter, 4inches; Grosventre Indians, Montana; cat. no. ;§2,, American Museum 
of Natural History. 
FiGc. 966. Whip top and whip; diameter of top, 1} inches; Sauk and Fox Indians, Iowa; cat. 
nO. 3$$5, American Museum of Natural History. 
Sauk anp Foxes. Iowa. (Cat. no. 32%,, American Museum of Nat- 
ural History.) 
Ovate ball of stone (figure 966), 13 inches in diameter, with a whip 
made of a peeled stick, 21 inches long, having two leather lashes. 
Collected by Dr William Jones, who describes them as whip top 
and whip, played on the ice. The top is called nimitcihi, dancer. 
“A Dictionary of the Abnaki Language in North America. Memoirs of the American 
Academy of Science and Arts, n. s., v. 1, Cambridge, 18338. 
