336 KEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 



Faciug page. 



57. Bronze sworcl autl dagger handles. Europe 499 



58. Bronze knives and scabbards. Europe 499 



59. Thin copper plate, repousse, human figure. Mound C, Etowah group, Georgia. 



Twelfth Auii. Kept. Bur. Ethuol., 1890-91, plate xvi. Cat. No. 91117, 

 U.S.N.M 500 



60. Thin copper plate, repousse, bird figure. Mound C, Etowah group, Georgia. 



TwelithAuu. Kept. Bur. Ethnol., plate XVIII. Cat. No. 9111fi, U.S.N.M... . 500 



61. Thin copper i)lates representing various objects. Hopewell mound, Koss 



County, Ohio. Wilson, Swastika, figs. 244-49. Originals in Field Colum- 

 bian Museum "^01 



6-'. Human skull with copper head-dress (imitation elkhorn), Hopewell mound, 

 Ross County, Ohio. Wilson, Swastika, plate 13. Original, Field Colum- 

 bian Museum 501 



63. Copper head-dress, sprouting horns. Hopewell mound, Ross County, Ohio. 



Putnam and Willoughby, Symbolism in Ancient American Art (Proc. 

 Am. Ass. Adv. Sci., LXIV, 1896, page 305, tig. 4). Original in Field Colum- 

 bian Museum - 502 



64. Gold objects from Chiriqui, Colombia, South America. (String of beads and 



bells at the bottom are from Peru.) Cat. Nos. 148148 to 148172, U.S.N.M.. 510 



65. Gold objects from Quimbaya, Antioquia, Colombia, South America. Some 



are casts and some originals. Cat. Nos. 147738 to 147746, U.S.N.M 510 



66. Gold ornaments, Costa Rica. Originals in National Museum, San Jose. 



Though some of these appear to have been made of gold wire coiled and 

 soldered, an investigation proved them to have been melted and cast 511 



67. Gold objects. Chibcas. Ruiz-Randall collection, from Bogota, Colombia, 



South America 511 



68. Shofars and other liorns. Palestine and Syria. Adler (Report U. S. Nat. Mus., 



1892, plate xcvii) 553 



69. Whistles and jew's-harps. Tibet. Rockhill (Report U. S. Nat. Mus., 1893, 



plate 24) 556 



70. Medicine and dance drum. Tanned sheepskin stretched over a wooden 



frame. Totemic figure, the bear. Beaten with an ordinary stick padded 

 with cloth. Tlingit, Sitka, Alaska. Cat. No. 127613, U.S.N.M. Collected 

 by Paymaster E. D. Webster, United States Navy. (Niblack, Report 

 U.S.Nat. Mus., 1888, fig. 302, plate lvii) 565 



71. Wooden whistles and trumpets. Indians of Northwest Coast 565 



Explanation of Plate 71. 



Fig. 1. Dance whistle. In form of a toy balloon, with a bladder attached to wooden 

 mouthpiece to operate the whistle. Cat. No. 89069, U.S.N.M. Haid.a, 

 Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia. Collected by James G. Swan. 

 (Niblack, Report U.S.Nat.Mus., 1888, fig. 298, plate lvii.) 



2. Dance whistle. With double reed mouthpieces backed with bellows. The 



cheeks of the bellows are painted, representing Hoorts, the bear. Cat. 

 No. 89064, U.S.N.M. Haida Indians, Skidegate, Queen Charlotte Islands, 

 British Columbia. Collected by James G. Swan. (Idem, fig. 329, plate 



LXII.) 



3. Ceremonial trumpet. Made in six pieces (see fig. 4, this plate), which, when 



joined, form six chambers, in each of which a piece of fabric is stretched. 

 The different tones are not set to a scale. Cat. No. 20687, U.S.N.M. 

 Tsimshian, Fort Simpson, British Columbia. Collected by James G. 

 Swan. (Niblack, Report U. S. Nat. Mus., 1888, fig. 301, plate lvii.) 



4. Wooden trumpet. Five-chambered. Compare with fig. 3, this plate. 



(Idem, fig. 319, plate Lxi.) 



