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a lateral hole aiul possibly used as a wbistle. Speaking of these two 

 objects, he says : ' 



Amon- tlio woodon objects, somo fragments of a flute fonnd in Spring House 

 should Tlso be mentioned. [Here reproduced as tig. 222.] The tlute was made of a 

 bough Its diameter was 2.5 centimeters. The longest fragment measured 4d centi- 

 meters and was pierced with three holes. In a smaller fragment, which could not 

 bo fitted together with the rest, was a trace of a fourth hole. 

 Of the bone object he says (description of plate XLI) : 



The above figure [here represented in fig. 223] shows a bone implement pierced 

 with a little hole, and perhaps used as a whistle. 



Fig. 224. 



DRUM. 



Pueblo Indians, New Mexico. 



Cat. No. 4in6, U.S.N.M. ^ natural size 



There seems to be no reason why the use ascribed to these objects 

 by Professor Nordenskiold should not be accepted. A people with an 

 art culture so highly developed in other directions might easily have 

 invented and used musical instruments. 



PUEBLO INDIANS — (ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO). 



The follfowing descriptions of musical instruments from the Pneblos 

 are intended merely for comparison, or for showing certain resem- 

 blances of form between them and objects of the same class from other 



1 The Cliff Dwellers of the Mesa Verde, p. 101, fig. 64. 



