760 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS [ETH. Ann. 24 
probably acquainted with the popgun before white contact. They 
made them through the winter, and in the summer threw them away. 
The following, he said, is the order of the boys’ games: Shinny 
(tabegathe, ball to strike) in spring; throwing sticks and target 
shooting in summer; shinny in the fall; tops, bone sliders, and pop- 
guns in winter. The plum-stone dice game is played at all seasons. 
Bran SHOOTER 
The implement to which for convenience the name of bean shooter 
has been given is a mechanical contrivance not unlikely to have been 
borrowed from the whites, found thus far only in the Southwest and 
on the Northwest coast. 
Fig. 1029. Bean shooter; length, 12; inches; Hopi Indians, Oraibi, Arizona; cat. no. 38626, Free 
Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
SHOSHONEAN STOCK 
Horr. Oraibi, Arizona. (Cat. no. 38626, Free Museum of Science 
and Art, University of Pennsylvania.) 
Bean shooter (figure 1029), made of a piece of cane, 12% inches in 
length, with a spring, consisting of a bent strip of wood, the 
ends of which are secured in holes cut in the cane. Collected by 
the writer in 1901. 
Mono. Hooker cove, Madera county, California. (Cat. no. 71445, 
Field Columbian Museum.) 
Wooden splint (figure 1030), 10 inches in length, used as a toy for 
flipping mud balls. Collected by Dr J. W. Hudson. 
Fig. 1030. Stone flipper; length, 10 inches; Mono Indians, Madera county, California; cat. no- 
71445, Field Columbian Museum. 
WAKASHAN STOCK 
Kwaxiutt. Alert bay, Vancouver island, British Columbia. 
Dr C. F. Newcombe writes as follows, describing what he calls the 
figure 4 dart shooter: 
Among the Kwakiutl, of the Nimpkish tribe, this is called HEndlEm. In use 
a small stick is placed across the top of the pliant side pieces and is shot to 
