SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 

 Bulletin 136 





HANDBOOK OF THE COLLECTION 



OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS 



IN THE UNITED STATES 



NATIONAL MUSEUM 



BY 



FRANCES DENSMORE 



Collaborator, Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution 



MAV 26 1927 



UNITED STATES 



GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 



WASHINGTON 



1927 



