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some little distance by pressing on the trigger piece which is horizontal to the 
figure 4. The figure is held in front of the body with both hands with the short 
end of the trigger downwards, and the perpendicular stem of the 4 horizontally. 
It is frequently used when children are sick and small sticks are shet in dif- 
ferent directions to chase away the spirit supposed to be causing the sickness. 
It was used as lately as two years ago at Alert bay. Sets of four of this instru- 
ment are employed by grown-up people—relatives of the sick. The sticks are 
left lying about after the performance, but the guns are burned when done with. 
This goes on for four nights in succession. The noise of the two flexible sides 
coming together when the stick is ejected is supposed to aid the good work. 
At night the four shooters are left loaded near the sick child to scare the ghost 
or spirit. They are also, used as a game by children. 
Makan. Neah bay, Washington. (Free Museum of Science and 
Art, University of Pennsylvania.) 
Two stone flippers, made of curved pieces of whalebone, one single 
and the other double, recurved. Collected by the writer in 1900. 
OpircuesanH?r. Vancouver island, British Columbia. (Cat. no. IV 
A 7117, 7118, Berlin Museum fiir Vélkerkunde.) 
Curved splint of whalebone (figure 1031), 4 inches in length. 
The collector, Capt. Samuel Jacobsen, gives the name as tklamayek. 
Fig. 1031. Fig. 1032. 
Fic. 1031. Stone flipper; length, 4 inches; Opitchesaht Indians, Vancouver island, British 
Columbia; cat. no. IV A 7117, 7118, Berlin Museum fiir Vélkerkunde. 
Fig. 1032. Bean shooter; length, 10 inches; Zuni Indians, Zuni, New Mexico; cat. no. 3066, 
Brooklyn Institute Museum. 
ZUNIAN STOCK 
Zox1. Zuni, New Mexico. (Cat. no. 3066, Brooklyn Institute Mu- 
seum. ) 
Bean shooter (figure 1032), consisting of a tube of wood, with a 
wooden spring; length, 10 inches. 
Collected by the writer in 1903. The name was given as keto 
ananal. 
Car’s CRADLE 
Cat’s cradle is known to all the tribes of whom direct inquiry has 
been made. The Zuni explain it as the netted shield of the War Gods, 
and as taught to the latter by their grandmother, the Spider. The 
