758 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS [27H. ann. 24 
Porcun 
The writer has a record of the popgun from seven tribes, of which 
three are Siouan. The evidence is not sufficient to establish proof of 
its existence before the time of native contact with the whites. At 
the same time the two finely finished popguns (figure 1022) excavated 
by Dr George A. Dorsey at Ancon, Peru, now in the Field Columbian 
Museum, bring its aboriginal character in North America within the 
bounds of probability. 
ALGONQUIAN STOCK 
Cueyenne. Oklahoma. (Cat. no. 165964, United States National 
Museum. ) 
Popgun (figure 1023), consisting of a wooden tube, marked with 
burned designs, 10 inches in length, and a stick, or plunger, 163 
inches in length. Collected by Rey. H. R. Voth. 
Fig. 1022. Fig. | 024. 
Fig. 1025. 
Fic. 1022. Wooden popguns; length, 5 inches; Ancon, Peru; cat. no. 5309, Field Columbian 
Museum. 
Frc. 1023. Popgun; length, 10 inches; Cheyenne Indians, Oklahoma; cat. no. 165964, United 
States National Museum. 
Fig. 1024. Popgun; length, 124 inches; Sauk and Fox Indians, Iowa; cat. no. 3855, American 
Museum of Natural History. 
Fig. 1025. Popgun; length, 12; inches; Arikara Indians, Fort Berthold, North Dakota; cat. no. 
8424, United States National Museum. 
Sauk anp Foxes. Iowa. (Cat. no. 3$%,;, American Museum of 
Natural History.) 
Popgun of elder wood (figure 1024), 125 inches in length. 
This was collected by Dr William Jones, who gives the name as 
paskesi gani, fighting thing, and says that it was used by boys with a 
bow and a belt of blue-joint arrows in playing war. 
CADDOAN STOCK 
Arrkara. Fort Berthold, North Dakota. (Cat. no. 8424, United 
States National Museum.) 
Wooden popgun (figure 1025), a tube, 12% inches in length, marked 
with burned designs, and a wooden plunger. Collected by Dr 
©. C. Gray and Dr Washington Matthews, U. S. Army. 
