570 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 



Fig. 207 represents ;i boue whistle from an aucieut grave on San 

 Miguel Island, California (Bowers collection). It is made from a tibia 

 of the deer {Cariacns iHrginiamis). The upper end has been cut off, 

 the cellular portion of the bone removed, and a side hole placed about 

 1| inches from the open end. Opposite this opening and extending to 

 the end on the inside are remains of gum or asphaltum, which formed 

 an air passage on the principle of the modern flageolet. By restoring 

 this with clay, I was enabled to get a sound or note on the instrument 



thus : 8ra. 



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There are two other whistles of like form from Santa Cruz Island 

 (Cat. Nos. 26273 and 26274 U.S.N.M.), but so much cracked and 

 weathered that no attempt was made at restoration. 



Fig. 208 represents one of three instruments lately received from Mr. 

 J. iSTeale Plumb, of New York. They are from San Clemen te Island, 

 and were obtained by Mr. Plumb during the summer of 1895 while 

 exploring the shell heaps and graves on the island. There were five of 

 these instruments found together in one grave. These are also made 

 from the tibia of a deer, but, unlike the whistle just described, the 

 lower or smaller end of the bone is cut away to form the mouthpiece. 



Fig. 210. 

 BONE WHISTLE OR FLAGEOLET. 



Santa Barbara County, California. 



Cat. No. 20532, U.S.N.M. /j natural size. 



This has been carefully worked and smoothed all around. The side or 

 vent hole is about an inch from the end. Small pieces of gum forming 

 the air passage still adhere to the inside of the tube. There are no 

 finger holes, and consequently only one tone could be produced. On 

 the outside are traces of asphaltum, evidently used to hold in place a 

 wrapping of some kind, and near the larger end an ornament made from 

 a i)iece of iridescent Haliotis shell is held in place by the same mate- 

 rial. The instruments found by Mr. Plumb are of unequal lengths, 

 show no traces of asphaltum on the larger end as do the Schumacher 

 specimens (fig. 209), and they were probably intended to be used singly. 

 These were described by Prof. E. S. Holden.' 

 In the graves on the island of Santa Catalina, Schumacher^ found 



1 Popular Science Monthly, March, 1896. 



" Report upon U. S. Geographical Surveys West of the One Hundredth Meridian, 

 VII, Archii'ology, p. 237. 



