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Pre-Colnmbian Musical Instruments in 

 America. — In a recent article in the Popular 

 Science Monthly (November, 1898), entitled 

 Was Middle America Peopled from Asia ? I 

 insisted that if there had been any invasion, 

 peaceful or otherwise, sufficient to have 

 affected even in the slightest degree the arts, 

 customs, and religious beliefs of middle 

 America, then, associated with these influ- 

 ences, we should find traces of Asiatic uten- 

 sils, implements, structures, such as sandals, 

 weapons, pottery, wheels, plows, roofing 

 tiles, etc. ; in other words, just those objects 

 most intimately associated with man. I es- 

 pecially considered the absence of stringed 

 musical instruments and coincided with Dr. 

 Otis T. Mason in the belief that there was 

 no evidence of a pre-Columbian stringed 

 musical device. This question has been 

 variously discusssd and the following refer- 

 ences bear on the subject : A short note in 



the American Antiquarian for January, 1897, 

 by Dr. D. G. Brinton, entitled Native Ameri- 

 can Stringed Musical Instruments. The 

 author frankly admits, however, that the 

 cases cited may all have been borrowed 

 from the whites or negroes. Mr. M. H. Sa- 

 ville in the American Anthropologist for 

 August, 1897, described A Primitive Maya 

 Musical Instrument, though he makes no pro- 

 nounced statement of its pre-Columbian ori- 

 gin. Dr. Mason, in the American Anthropol- 

 ogist for November, 1897, discusses the 

 question under the title Geographical Distri- 

 bution of the Musical Bow, and in this paper 

 says, " I have come to the conclusion that 

 stringed musical instruments were not known 

 to any of the aborigines of the western 

 hemisphere before Columbus." In my paper 

 I insisted that " had this simple musical de- 

 vice been known anciently in this country, it 

 would have spread so widely that its pre- 



