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serve to make a rattling, jingling noise during the motion of the 

 individual, presumably while in the dance. 



Specimen, Cat. No. 8845 (U.S.ISr.M.) is a dance rattle of the Yankton 

 Sioux. It is a stick covered with tanned buckskin, to which are 

 attached, by leather thongs, a number of hoof tips. The end of the 

 leather is like a sack, ornamented with bead designs and two eagle 

 feathers. Its length, not including sack, is 17 inches. 



Fig. 215 represents a flageolet of the Kiowa Indians. It is repre- 

 sented as having been purchased by Cajitaiu Pratt, in 1888, for the 

 sum of $1.65. It is of cedar, lias been made in halves so as to work out 

 the interior, and is then gummed, put together, and bound tightly by 

 ten different strands of buckskin, which serve to keep it in place. 

 They are each wound three or four times around and tied in hard 

 knots, except that over the vent hole, which forms a bowknot, all the 

 ends being allowed to hang, as shown in the figure. Its length is 18 

 inches; its diameter, interior -^,r inch, exterior l^y inches. It has six 

 linger holes put about equal distances apart and in the same relation 

 to each other as in the white man's ordinary flageolet. The mouth 

 hole is iu the upper end and has been carved out of the solid, as repre- 

 sented in the figure. There is little doubt that this is a modern Indian 

 instrument. Its scale is as follows : 



The note G in the staff and the Gr above are a little sharp — between 

 G and Ab. A series of notes obtained by cross fingering were only 

 duplicates of tones already given. 



Fig. 216 represents a leg rattle of the Seminole Indians. It consists 

 of fifteen shells of the box tortoise attached to a leather legging. The 

 shells are perforated with small holes and filled with black seeds about 

 1% inch in diameter. Its length is 14 inches and width lO.J inches. 



Dr. Daniel ix. Brinton, in a paper entitled "Native American stringed 

 musical instruments,"' remarks: 



It is geiu-rally stated that the American Indians at the time of tho discovery ilid 

 not use anywhere on tho continent a stringed instrnmeut. I have found, however, 

 four examples which seem to controvert this, and I give them in the hope that the 

 readers in Tho Antiquarian will be able to add to their number. 



He describes one as the "Apache fiddle," a small stringed instru- 

 ment of one cord. The specimen is in the Museum of the University of 

 Pennsylvania. 



' American Antiquarian, January, 1897. 

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