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CHIMMESYAN STOCK 
Niska. Nass river, British Columbia. 
Dr Franz Boas“ describes a top as follows: 
Halha’l: spinning top, made of the top of a hemlock tree. A cylinder, 33’ 
in diameter and 3” high, is cut; a slit is made on one side and it is hollowed 
out. A pin, 24” long and }” thick, is inserted in the center of the top. A small 
board with a wide hole, through which a string of skin or of bear-guts passes, is 
used for winding up the top. It is spun on the ice of the river. The board is 
held in the left hand, and stemmed against the foot. Then the string is pulled 
through the hole with the right. Several men begin spinning at a’signal. The 
one whose top spins the longest wins. 
Fig. 967. Fig. 968. 
Fig. 967. Top; diameter, 3 inches; Tsimshian Indians, Hazelton, British Columbia; cat. no. 53115, 
Field Columbian Museum. 
Fic. 968. Top; height, 34 inches; Central Eskimo, Cumberland sound, Baffin land, Franklin; 
cat. no. 39%;, American Museum of Natural History. 
Tsrmsuian. Hazelton, British Columbia. (Cat. no. 53115, Field 
Columbian Museum. ) 
Top (figure 967), consisting of a disk of Wood 3 inches in diameter, 
with a wooden spindle 6 inches in length. Collected by Dr 
George A. Dorsey, who describes it as a child’s toy. 
ESKIMAUAN STOCK 
Esxrmo (Crntrat). Cumberland sound, Baffin land, Franklin. (Cat. 
no. 3$%,, American Museum of Natural History.) 
Wooden top (figure 968), with a wooden whirl and a spindle, 34 
inches in length. 
Collected by Capt. James S. Mutch, and figured by Doctor Boas,” 
who says it was probably spun on the ice. 
«Fifth Report on the Indians of British Columbia. Report of the Sixty-fifth Meeting 
of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, p. 583, London, 1895. 
*Eskimo of Baffin Land and Hudson Bay. Bulletin of the American Museum of 
Natural History, v. 15, p. 58, New York, 1901. 
