cULIN] BUZZ: ESKIMO 751 
Buzz 
A whirling toy made of a flat piece of bone, pottery, or gourd 
shell, or of a heavy bone, with one or two cords on each side, is 
a common toy among Indian children. The Plains tribes use a 
knuckle bone tied with a piece of sinew. A remarkable form, in 
which a conical piece of wood is made to revolve on a wooden spindle, 
is found among the Eskimo. Evidence as to the antiquity of the 
disk-shaped buzz is afforded by a clay-stone disk (figure 1009) with 
two perforations, from the cliff-ruins in the Canyon de Chelly, in 
the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute. 
Fig. 1009. Fig. 1010. 
Fic. 1009. Stone buzz; diameter, 1} inches; cliff-ruins in Canyon de Chelly, Arizona; cat. no. 
10679, Brooklyn Institute Museum. 
Fig. 1010. Bone buzz; Atsina (Grosventre) Indians, Fort Belknap, Montana; cat. no. 1§{5, 
American Museum of Natural History. 
ALGONQUIAN STOCK 
Arapano. Oklahoma. (Cat. no. 165819, United States National 
Museum. ) 
Toe bone of cow or ox, painted red and tied with sinew strings, hav- 
ing wooden handles at the ends; length, 20 inches. Collected 
by Rev. H. R. Voth. 
Grosventres. Fort Belknap, Montana. (Cat. no. ;$%,, American 
Museum of Natural History.) 
Toe bone of cow or ox (figure 1010), tied with sinew, having wooden 
pegs inserted at the ends of the cord. Collected by Dr A. L. 
Kroeber. 
ESKIMAUAN STOCK 
Eskimo (Crentrat). Cumberland sound, Baffin land, Franklin. 
(Cat. no. 325, American Museum of Natural History.) 
Buzz (figure 1011), made of a disk of skin, 22 inches in diameter, 
with serrated edges, having two perforations for the string. 
The specimen here described was collected by Capt. James S. Mutch 
and is figured by Doctor Boas. 
«Eskimo of Baffin Land and Hudson Bay. Bulletin of the American Museum of 
Natural History, v. 15, p. 58, New York, 1901. 
