‘CULIN] TOPS: ZUNI 749 
Cat. no. 37392. Peg top of hard wood with wooden peg in one piece 
(figure 1004) ; height, 34 inches. 
These tops were collected by the writer in 1900 and are called 
bo-bus-ca-die. 
Charlie Williams described another form of top to the writer, a 
kind of teetotum, made of alder bark, perforated, and played with 
the fingers. 
Dr George A. Dorsey states that the three varieties of tops, 
ba-buth]-ka-di, were described to him by Charlie Williams as in use 
among the Makah before the advent of the whites, but he thought 
that they had been derived from northern Indians. 
Fig. 1004. Fig. 1005. Fig. 1006. 
Fic. 1004. Top; height, 3} inches; Makah Indians, Neah bay, Washington; cat. no. 87392, Free 
Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
Fig. 1005. Top; height, 24 inches; Nootka Indians, Vancouver island, British Columbia; cat. 
no. IV A 1485, Berlin Museum fiir Vélkerkunde. 
Fic. 1006. Top; height, 2} inches; Nootka Indians, Vancouver island, British Columbia; cat. 
no. IV A 1484, Berlin Museum fiir Vélkerkunde. 
Noorka. Vancouver island, British Columbia. (Berlin Museum 
fiir V6lkerkunde. ) 
Cat. no. IV A 1485. Wooden top (figure 1005), 24 inches in 
height. 
Cat. no. TV A 1484. Top with bone whirl and 
wooden pin (figure 1006), 21 inches in height. 
The collector, Capt. Samuel Jacobsen, gives the 
name as jiih-jiih-jakei. 
ZUNIAN STOCK 
Zuni. Zuni, New Mexico. (Cat. no. 127698, 
United States National Museum.) 
_ = 5 : Fig. 1007. Top; height, 
Wooden top (figure 1007) with conical base and ~finones: Zant In, 
rounded top, having a hole leading into a smal] — dians, Zuni, New 
: = s ; : Mexico; cat. no. 
vavity at the top of the base, and a nail point; joes. United 
height, 4 inches. Collected by Col. James States National 
= Museum. 
Stevenson. 
Two others (cat. no. 69146 and 129070) are similar to the pre- 
ceding, and another (cat. no. 69413) is somewhat smaller, 3 inches 
“Games of the Makah Indians. The American Antiquarian, vy. 23, p. 73, 1901. 
