cULIN] TOPS: DAKOTA 745 
SIOUAN STOCK 
Crows. Crow reservation, Montana. (Field Columbian Museum.) 
Cat. no. 69660. Conical wooden top (figure 994a), with rounded 
base and flat top, painted red; height, 3 inches; with whip, a 
twig with three buckskin lashes. 
Cat. no. 69662. Cylindrical wooden top (figure 994%), with hemi- 
spheric base and flat top, painted black; height, 3 inches; with 
whip. 
Cat. no. 69663. Wooden top, cylindrical billet, pointed alike at both 
ends; painted red; height, 3 inches. 
Cat. no. 69664. Cylindrical wooden top, with conical base, having 
an iron nail-head in the center; unpainted; height, 4 inches. 
Cat. no. 69665. Top, similar to the preceding; height, 24 inches; 
with whip. 
Cat. no. 69666. Top, similar to no. 69660; unpainted; height, 34 
inches. 
Fig. 995. 
Fic. 994 a, b,c. Whip tops; heights, 3, 3, and 14 inches; Crow Indians, Montana; cat. no. 69660, 
69662, 69667, Field Columbian Museum. 
Fic. 995. Whip tops and whip; Oglala Dakota Indians, Pine Ridge reservation, South Dakota; 
eat. no, 22125 a, b, c, d, Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
Cat. no. 69677. Catlinite top (figure 994¢), bullet-shaped, with a 
wooden plug extending from top to point; height, 12 inches. 
The plug takes up the shock when the top is thrown. 
These specimens were collected in 1901 by Mr S. C. Simms, who 
gives the name memashscha. 
Dakota (Ociata). Pine Ridge reservation, South Dakota. (Cat. 
no. 22125 a, b, c, d, Free Museum of Science and Art, Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania. ) \ 
Two wooden tops (figure 995), rudely cut from a sapling, 1} inches 
in diameter at top and 22 and 3 inches in Jength. One is painted 
