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yellow, with red center on top and beveled edge, blue at the top, 
the lower pointed end painted red and yellow. The other is 
painted blue on top, with red beveled edge and the pointed end 
yellow and red. A third top is similar, but unpainted. A whip 
consists of a stick, 17 inches in length, with a lash made of hide, 
cut in three thongs, attached with sinew. 
These specimens were collected by Mr Louis L. Meeker,: who gives 
the name as can wakiyapi, and says: 
Players contend for position in a square marked on the ground or on ice, The 
game is to whip the top into the square and keep it there. On ice a square 
is marked and each player starts his top outside the square, trying to whip 
his top inside. When one succeeds, he holds the square while he keeps his top 
there. Should the top fall or run outside the ring, the others press in. The 
tops are rudely shaped from hard-wood sticks. 
Daxora (Teron). South Dakota. 
Rey. J. Owen Dorsey ” gives the following account: 
Chan kawachipi, Spinning tops.—Tops are made of ash, cedar, buffalo horn, 
red catlinite, or of stone. They put a scalp lock on the upper surface, ornament- 
ing the latter with several colors of paint. They make the top spin by twirling 
it with the fingers, or by whipping. When they make it spin steadily by whip- 
ping they redden the scalp lock, and as it revolves very rapidly it seems to be 
driven into the ground. This game is played on the ice or snow: sometimes on 
ground which has been made firm and smooth by trampling. For a whip 
each player takes a tender switch, to the small end of which he fastens a lash 
of deer hide. He braids one-half of the lash, allowing the rest to hang loosely. 
They place the tops in a row, after putting up stakes, and say: ‘‘ Let us see 
who can make his top spin the longest distance.” 
Dr J. R. Walker describes the game of tops among the Teton as 
played by making a square about 5 feet across. The players spin 
their tops outside of the square, and drive them into the open side 
of the square with their whips while they are spinning. 
Daxora (Yanxron). Fort Peck, Montana. (Free Museum of 
Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania.) 
Cat. no. 87614. Two whip tops, rudely carved, peg-shaped, with the 
top edge beveled; one with the top painted red and beveled 
edge blue, the other blue, with a red edge; the whip a peeled twig, 
15 inches in length, with hide lash. 
Cat. no. 87615. Whip top of wood (figure 996), 4 inches in height. 
It shows much use. 
Cat. no. 37616. Whip top of horn (figure 997), a tip of horn, hol- 
lowed, 24 inches in length. 
These tops were collected by the writer in 1900. A top is called 
kawacipi; a wooden top, cankawacipi; the whip, icapsinte. 
* Ogalala Games. Bulletin of the Free Museum of Science and Art, v. 3, p. 33, Phila- 
delphia, 1901. 
>Games of Teton Dakota Children. ‘The American Anthropologist, v. 4, p. 338, 1891. 
¢ Sioux Games. Journal of American Folk-Lore, v. 19, p. 33, 1906. 
