556 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 



band covers the disk between the two heads and projects a few inches, 

 so as to be hel«l in the hand. Fig. 1 is smaller and the skulls are not 

 painted, but the band is of embroidered satiu, decorated with elabo- 

 rately knotted Chinese silk tassels. The bell (drilbu) is of bronze and 

 usually about 2f inches in diameter. His figs. 4 and 5, plate 41, repre- 

 sent such bells. Fig. 4 is made iu Derge, famous for its clear-toned 

 bells. Fig. 5 comes from the famous Lamasery of Doloimor, eastern 

 Mongolia. Musical instruments belonging to Tibet, exclusive of those 

 used in religious worship, plate 69 (his plate 24), are (1) the whistle 

 (liug-bu, figs. 1-3) of bamboo or the bone of an eaghi's wing, Avith six 

 or seven key holes; (2) the jew's-harp (k'a-pi, figs. 4-6), and (3) the 

 banjo or guitar (piwang, kopoug, or dra-nyan), with three or more 

 strings. The latter is not figured by Mr. Rockhill. The figures of 

 the former sufficiently explain themselves, but the jew's-harp is here 

 described because of its occurrence among distant savage peoples. 

 Mr. Eockhill says: 



The jew's-harp is made not by the Tibetans, but by the Lissus and other non-Tibe- 

 tan tribes inhabiting southeast Tibet, and is a fa\'orite instrument in eastern Tibet, 

 •where nearly all the women carry one susjiended from their girdles. Three harps 

 are used simultaneously, each giving a different note; the deepest note is called p'o 

 kii or "male sound," the intermediate one ding kil or "middle sound," the sharpest 

 one mo kii or " female sound." They are held the one below the other in the order 

 above given between the thumb and the index finger of the left hand, and struck 

 with all the fingers of the right hand, the one after the other. These k'a-pi are car- 

 ried in small bamboo cases ornamented with little rings of bamboo, often dyed, and 

 also with geometric carvings, which are also colored. They are shown in the lower 

 portion of this plate. 



Jew's-harps' similar to those used in Tibet are found among the Ainu and in New 

 Guinea, but in many other countries where a bamboo harj) is used, the sound is pro- 

 duced by jerking the harp by a string. This is the case in Assam, in parts of Suma- 

 tra, among the Yakuts, the tribes of Torres Straits, etc. (p. 715.) 



Egypt (Thebes and Cairo). 



Fig. 197 represents a tube of cane with four finger holes (collected 

 by Dr. George Sampson). Its length is 5 inches, its diameter ^ inch. 

 In the upper end of this tube another piece of cane, the outside 



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Fig. 197. 

 SINGLE REED INSTRUMENT {ZOommamh). 



Thebes, Egypt. 



Cat. No. 7-4fiOU, U.S.N.M. 



diameter of which is equal to the inside diameter of the former tube, 

 is inserted, projecting 1.^ inches; this forms the mouthpiece of the 

 instrument. To prevent its loss the mouthpiece is attached to the tube 

 with a cord. 



