cULIN] TOPS: TEWA 747 
Hipatsa. Fort Berthold, North Dakota. (Cat. no. 178969, United 
States National Museum.) 
Wooden top, 2% inches in height, with a bone pin (figure 998). Col- 
lected by Dr Washington Matthews, U. S. Army, who describes 
it as an ice top. 
Omaua. Nebraska. 
Mr Francis La Flesche described to the writer a game like whip 
top, played with stone balls on the ice. Clay balls and river pebbles 
are alsoused. The name, moodedeska, is an old word and not descrip- 
tive. This game is played also by the Dakota and the Ponca. 
Fig. 998. Fig. 1000. Fig. 999. 
Fic. 996. Whip top; height, 4 inches; Yankton Dakota Indians, Fort Peck, Montana; cat. no. 
37615, Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
Fic. 997. Horn top; height, 2) inches; Yankton Dakota Indians, Fort Peck, Montana; cat. no. 
37616, Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
Fig. 998. Top; height, 2} inches; Hidatsa Indians, Fort Berthold, North Dakota; cat. no. 178969, 
United States National Museum. fi 
Fig. 999. Top; height, 3} inches; Tewa Indians, Santa Clara, New Mexico; cat. no. 46828, United 
States National Museum. 
Fic. 1000. Top; height, 2} inches; Tewa Indians, Santa Clara, New Mexico; cat. no. 151956, 
United States National Museum. 
SKITTAGETAN STOCK 
Hama. Queen Charlotte islands, British Columbia. 
Dr C. F. Newcombe informed the writer that he had seen this tribe 
make little tops, which they spun with the fingers. 
TANOAN STOCK 
Tewa. Santa Clara, New Mexico. (United States National Mu- 
seum. ) 
Cat. no. 46828. Wooden top (figure 999), roughly worked, the base 
terminating in a hemispheric knob; height, 3% inches. Collected 
by Col. James Stevenson. 
Cat. no. 151956. Wooden top (figure 1000) with iron point; height, 
2% inches. Collected by Capt. John G. Bourke, U. S. Army. 
