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picked, such as the jew's-harp and music boxes. A third branch 

 would involve instruments that are rubbed, like the musical glasses. 

 This series terminates with examples in which membrane is used, 

 such as hand drums and military drums, and presents, in outline only, 

 progress in the development of percussive or autophonous musical 

 instruments. 



No. 1. Hopi rattle of gourd. Handle the neck of the gourd. Arizona 94,637 



No. 2. Hopi rattle {mu-shi-la) . Flat gourd with wooden handle passing through. 



Arizona 11,787 



No. 3. Rawhide bag inclosing pebbles and seeds. Sioux 165,685 



No. 4. Rattle of plaited fiber, with pebbles inside. British Guiana 54,186 



No. 5. Tlingit rattle carved in imitation of a fish hawk. Southeastern 



Alaska 88,727 



No. 6. Rattle made of cocoons of moth fastened to twigs. California. 



No. 7. Clallam rattle. Pecten shells strung on wooden hoop ; ornamented with 



feathers and colored cloths. Washington State 13,117 



No. 8. Tortoise shell, with dewclaws of deer on leather thongs for clappers. 



Arizona 68,791 



No. 9. African rattle. Wrought-iron disk with handle, to the border of which 



are hung iron bells. Congo 174,748 



No. 10. Hupa rattle. Cloth belt, to which are attached pendants of deer hoofs, 



ornamented with beads. California 77, 190 



No. 11. Brahman and Mohammedan anklet rattle, Hindustan. Rope of grelots 

 or hawk bells worn by both sexes and held sacred. Put on with special 



religious ceremonies 92,717 



No. 12. Musical bones or clappers. Used chiefly by minstrel bands in 



America 55,727 



No. 13. Chinese clappers {clmt-pan). Three tablets of hard wood united by a 



string piercing all of them 96,567 



No. 14. Sheep bones strung on a cord, forming a rattle. Spain. 

 No. 15. Block of hardwood hollowed through an incision in the side. China. 

 No. 16. Fijian war drum (sa li). Log of wood hollowed like a canoe, orna- 

 mented with beads inlaid. Struck with wooden club 23,949 



No. 17. Tambourine made by pegging skin over a wooden hoop. American 



Indian. 

 No. 18. Hindu kettledrum (tabla). Sonorousness increased by weighting the 

 head with a circular patch of black cement. Struck with the 



finger 92,726 



No. 19. Japanese two-headed drum (kah ka). Head larger than the body. 

 Different tones are produced by striking in the center or at the 



edge 94,954 



No. 20. Chinese gong (lo) of bronze. Peculiar to the Far East, having a bossed 

 or raised center and the rim turned back a little more than a right 



angle 94,850 



No. 21. Chinese cymbal (po). Made of hammered bell metal in shape of 

 Chinese hat 94,861 



SERIES 2. — OPEN-STRINGED INSTRUMENTS OF MUSIC. 



Plates 40 and 41. 



Stringed instruments are divided into two classes, namely, open 

 and stopped, and each of these is subdivided into the picked, the 



