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fastened to the shaft. This string is about 8 feet long, and about half 
of it is tied up into the hank to make a handle. The specimen was 
collected by Mr John Murdoch,t who describes it as follows: 
It works very much like a civilized child’s whirligig. The string is wound 
around the shaft and a smart pull on the handle unwinds it, making the 
block spin round rapidly. The reaction, spinning it in the opposite direction, 
winds up the string again. A couple of loose hawk’s feathers are stuck into 
the tip of the block, which is painted with red ocher for about an inch. Four 
equidistant stripes of the same color run down the sides to a border of the 
same width round the base. This was made for sale and appears to be an 
unusual toy. I do not recollect ever seeing the children play with such a toy. 
It is called kai’psa (Gr. kfvsak, ‘a whirligig or similar toy ’’). 
Another specimen (cat. no. 89807, United States National Museum) 
is made of a solid tip of a mountain sheep’s horn (figure 10154), and 
is elaborately ornamented with a conventional pattern of lines and of 
circles and dots, incised and colored red with ocher. The shaft is 
of hard bone, and the line has a little wooden handle at the end. The 
block is so heavy it will hardly spin. <A similar object, collected by 
Mr E. A. Mcllhenny at Point Barrow, Alaska (cat. no. 42369, 
Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania), is 
described by him as a whirligig, kaipsak. It differs from the speci- 
mens described in being made entirely of wood, and is quite new and 
unused. - 
SHOSHONEAN STOCK 
Horr. Oraibi, Arizona. (Cat. no. 128488, United States National 
Museum. ) 
Five disks of clay stone (figure 1016), from 12 to 24 inches in diam- 
eter, each perforated with two holes, having a cord of woolen 
yarn passing through them with its ends tied to form a loop on 
each side. 
Fig. 1016. Buzzes; diameters, 1} and 2} inches; Hopi Indians, Oraibi, Arizona; cat. no. 128488, 
United States National Museum. 
Two of the specimens which are figured are painted in red, white, 
and black, with star or flower-shaped designs on both sides. The 
others are plain. These were collected by Col. James Stevenson and 
were designated as child’s toys. Two other specimens in the United 
@Ethnological Results of the Point Barrow Expedition. Ninth Annual Report of the 
Bureau of Ethnology, p. 376, 1892. 
