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ill the burnt wood, whicli, by bringing- out the light color of the inte- 

 rior, shows in circles, lozenges, zigzag, chevron, and festooned forms. 



Specimen, Cat. No. 174752 (U.S.N.M.) is a whistle of pottery in the 

 form of a hollow cylinder with two projecting lugs from opposite sides. 

 The mouth hole, three fourths of an inch in diameter, is at the upper 

 end. At the opposite end is a finger hole three-sixteenths inch in 

 diameter. There is also a finger hole through one of the lugs. The 

 opposite lug is perforated for suspension. It is sounded by blowing 

 across the larger hole and the different notes produced are as follows: 

 . Length, 4^ inches; diameter, li; width across 

 K^ — ^j""] lugs, 3^ inches. Tribe Bakorua, from Saukura, 

 '-==-^ Africa. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott describes the "Ethnological 

 Collections in the United States National Museum from Kilimanjaro, 

 East Africa." ' The locality is thus identified: 



A little south of the eiiuator and about 175 miles froui the coast of P^ast Africa, 

 rises the splendid mountain Kilimanjaro. It covers an area as great as the Bernese 

 Overland and its greatest peak— Ki bo— is over 20,000 feet in height, capped with 

 glaciers and eternal snows. The nearest port on the coast is Mondasa, now the 

 headquarters of the British East African Company. 



Dr. Abbott's paper is illustrated by photographs of this primitive 

 people. The list of musical instruments, all of them from the Wa 

 Changa tribe, Mount Kilimanjaro, East Africa, is as follows: 



Battles.— li'ATge iron bell with two balls as sounders; worn by women during 

 pregnancy, on the lower part of the thigh. Length, 4| inches. (Cat. No. 151577, 

 U.S.N.M.) 



Battles.— Two small semilunar iron bells, tied to a thong; worn on the ankles. 

 (Cat. No. 151575, U.S.N.M.) 



Anile rattles. — Iron bells, semilunar in shape, with sounders of iron balls, fastened 

 in pairs to a thong of leather and worn on the ankles in dancing. (Cat. No. 151576, 

 U.S.N.M.) 



j>,.„w.— Tube of wood closed at one end, with a skin liead. Used to call the pop- 

 ulation to arms. It is carried under the left arm and beaten with right hand. Length, 

 4 feet 2 inches; diameter, 44 inches. (Cat. No. 151.584, U.S.N.M.) 



Cow hell. — A piece of iron, wrought thin and cut in shape of a dumb-bell, then 

 bent at the center so as to form a rude bell, Avith a clapper attached, to the narrow 

 portion at the top. (Cat. No. 151578, U.S.N.M.) 



Cotv &e?/.— Native ironwork, similar to Cat. No. 151578. (Cat. No.. 151579, U.S.N.M.) 



Fig. 198 a, 1), represents one of three rattles from Mayumba, Africa. 

 (Collected by Mr. Carl Strechelman.) Its length is 3^ inches, width, IJ, 

 and thickness, 1^ inches. It is double — that is, with rattle at each end, 

 intended to be held in the middle. It is of dark-colored soft wood, the 

 outside charred and then ornamented by incised lines in squares, paral- 

 lels, chevrons, herringbones, etc. Fig. 198a represents a complete 

 drawing, while fig. 1986 is a longitudinal section showing the interior 

 construction, the formation of the double bell, the clappers of wood, 

 three in number within each bell, and their attachment by an endless 



1 Report U. S. Nat. Mus., 1891, p. 381. 



