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Cat. no. 56045a. Wooden top (figure 974), 44 inches in height, the 
lower part painted blue with red ring on top and blue above. 
Cat. no. 56046. Ivory disk (figure 975), 24 inches in diameter, the 
top decorated with incised lines, and ivory pin, 3$ inches in 
length. 
Cat. no. 56047. Wooden top (figure 976), a disk of wood, 44 inches 
in diameter, with the top convex and ornamented with incised 
circles painted red and black, having a wooden spindle, 44 inches 
in length. 
Cat. no. 56048. Bone disk (figure 977), 14 inches in diameter, with 
the bottom ornamented with nine black spots, and bone pin, 14 
inches in length. 
All the foregoing specimens were collected by Mr Charles L. 
McKay. 
Fig. 976. 
Fig. $74. 
Fig. 974. Wooden top; height, 44 inches; Western Eskimo, Bristol bay, Alaska; cat. no. 56045a, 
Jnited States National Museum. 
Fig. 975. Ivory top; height, 3% inches; Western Eskimo, Bristol bay, Alaska; cat. no. 56046, 
United States National Museum. 
F1G. 976. Wooden top; diameter, 44 inches; Western Eskimo, Bristol bay, Alaska; cat. no. 56047, 
United States National Museum. 
Fic. 977. Bone top; height, 1} inches; Western Eskimo, Bristol bay, Alaska; cat. no. 56048, United 
States National Museum. ' 
Eskimo (Western). Point Barrow,- Alaska. (Cat. no. 56491, 
United States National Museum.) 
Top. consisting of a shaft of pine and a disk of spruce (figure 978), 
44 inches in diameter, ornamented with blacklead marks, form- 
ing a border about one-fourth of an inch broad; height, 54 
inches. It is called kaipsa. 
Collected in 1882 by Lieut. P. H. Ray, U. S. Army. 
Lower Yukon, Alaska. 
Mr Edward William Nelson? gives, under top spinning (uiwuk), 
the following description : 
In winter, along the lower Yukon and adjacent region to the south, the 
children of both sexes gather in the kashim, and each child in succession spins 
«The Point Barrow Eskimo. Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, p. 376, 
1892. 
>The Eskimo about Bering Strait. Highteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Amer- 
ican Ethnology, pt. 1, p. 333, 1899. 
