cuLin] POPGUN : OMAHA 759 
MARIPOSAN STOCK 
Yoxuts. Tule River reservation, Tulare county, California. (Cat. 
no. 70505, Field Columbian Museum. ) 
Popgun of elder (figure 1026), with maple piston, for shooting wads; 
length, 144 inches. Collected by Dr J. W. Hudson. 
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Fie. 1026. Popgun; length, 14; inches; Yokuts Indians, Tule River reservation, Tulare county, 
California; cat. no. 70505, Field Columbian Museum. 
SIOUAN STOCK 
Dakota (Ocrata). Pine Ridge reservation, South Dakota. (Cat. 
no. 22131, Free Museum of Science and Art, University of 
Pennsylvania. ) 
Popgun, epahoton (figure 1027), a piece of sapling, three-fourths 
of an inch in diameter and 64 inches in length, with a hole 
burned through the center, the outside being ornamented with 
burned lines, as shown in the figure. 
Collected by Mr Louis L. Meeker, who states that popguns are used 
by Oglala boys to shoot wads of elm bark.* 
Fic. 1027. Popgun; length, 6} inches; Oglala Dakota Indians, Pine Ridge reservation, South 
Dakota; cat. no. 22131, Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
Daxora (Teron). South Dakota. 
Rev. J. Owen Dorsey ” says: 
I’pahotun’pi un’pi, Pop-gun game.—In the fall, when the wind blows down 
the leaves, the boys make pop-guns of ash wood. They load them with bark 
which they have chewed, or else with wild sage (Artemesia), and they shoot at 
one another. The one hit suffers much pain. 
Dr J. R. Walker © describes the popgun under the name of ipaho- 
tonpi, and gives the names of the parts as tancan, body; wibopan, 
ramrod; and iyopuhdi, the wadding. The latter, he says, is made by 
chewing the inner bark of the elm, and using it while wet. 
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Fig. 1028. Popgun; Omaha Indians, Nebraska; from drawing by Mr Francis La Flesche. 
Omana. Nebraska. 
Mr Francis La Flesche told the writer in 1893 that Omaha boys 
made popguns (figure 1028), batushi (to push, to crack), of elder, 
which they stop with two wads of nettle fiber. These Indians were 
2 Bulletin of the Free Museum of Science and Art, y. 3, p. 35, Philadelphia, 1901. 
>Games of Teton Dakota Children. The American Anthropologist, v. 4, p. 337, 1891. 
¢ Journal of American Folk-Lore, vy. 19, p. 35, 1905. 
