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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 



localities. It is not claimed tliat they are all prehistoric, although some 

 of them are undoubtedly ancient. Mr. James Stevenson, in his illus- 

 trated catalogue of the collectious obtained from the Pueblos, says;! 



Fig. 226. 

 DANCE BATTLE. 



"Wolpi, Arizona. 



Cat. No. 41S02, U.S.N. M. ';, natural size. 



Fig. 225. 

 DANCE RATTLE. 



Wolpi, Arizona. 



Cat. No. 42042, U.S.N.M. 

 ht natural size. 



Quite a number of articles of this group may perhaps be properly classed as 

 'aucient," and were obtained more or less uninjured. 



And also (pp. 335, 330) that the 



ornaments and musical instruments employed in 

 dances and religious ceremonies do not differ 

 much among the Pueblo Indians, the principal 

 ones being the drum, rattles made from gourds, 

 notclied sticks, a kind of tliite, and a turtle-shell 

 rattle. 



Drums. — Fig. 224 represents one of 

 these instruments. Mr. Stevenson's de- 

 scrii)tion (p. 398, fig. 581) is as follows: 



A flat drum made by stretching goat hide over 

 a wide hoop and tightened by lacing crosswise 

 around the edge with a cord of the same material. 

 One side is plain, the other is decorated with a 

 figure which is not interpreted. This specimen is 

 from Shinumo, but it does not differ from those 

 used by many of the other tribes. 



A. large drum {Pur-'pi-shuk-pi-'po-ya) 

 Cat. No. 128922 (U.S.N.M.) is of more 

 primitive construction from the Hopi 

 Indians of Arizona. The shell is made 

 from an irregular shaped section of a hollow log 15f inches long or high 

 and 18 inches in largest diameter. Two rawhides are stretched over the 

 ends without hoops to make the heads, and are laced together with a 

 strip of the same material. 



Fig. 227. 

 RATTLE MADE FKOM OX HOOFS. 



Wolpi, Arizona. 



Cat. No. 418.55, U.S.N.M. Jj natural size. 



'Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1880-81, p. 319. 



