curtn] TOPS: CLALLAM 741 
These specimens were collected in 1900 by Dr George A. Dorsey 
and described by him under the name of heshtalxeash.¢ 
MARIPOSAN STOCK 
Yoxuts. Tule River reservation, Tulare county, California. (Cat. 
no. 70506, Field Columbian Museum. ) 
Two wooden hand tops (figure 985); lengths, 44 and 24+ inches. 
Collected by Dr J. W. Hudson, who describes them as toys for 
hand spinning. 
Fig. 984. Fig. 98. 
Fig. 984. Tops; Klamath Indians, Oregon; cat. no. 61728, 61729, Field Columbian Museum. 
Fig. 985. Hand tops; lengths, 4; and 2} inches; Yokuts Indians, Tule River reservation, Tulare 
county, California; cat. no. 70506, Field Columbian Museum. 
MAYAN STOCK 
Maya. Yucatan. 
Dr Alfred Tozzer writes: 
A top game is called in Maya polkirich. The tops are made of wood in the 
common shape and spun in a circle marked on the ground in the center of which 
is the object to be won or lost. Certain rules govern this. 
SALISHAN STOCK 
Crattam. Washington. 
A Clallam boy, John Raub, informed the writer that the boys of 
this tribe play with tops like those used by the Makah (figures 1002- 
1004), which they call tsuchichaiootklen. 
“Certain Gambling Games of the Klamath Indians. American Anthropologist, n. s., 
v. 3, p. 20, 1901. 
