PREHISTORIC ART. 



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with a tapering stem or neck, which served as a mouthpiece. It is 

 modeled in gray-colored clay and unpainted, with the exception of the 

 mouthx)iece, which is colored dark red, and highly polished. The front 

 portion of the instrument is ornamented in relief, and on the opposite 

 side is a raised loop, forming a suspension hole. It has one sound 

 hole near the base 

 of the air chamber, 

 and two notes are 

 possible : 





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the lower tone with 

 the sound hole 

 closed. 



The American Mu- 

 seum of Natural His- 

 tory in New York 

 City possesses a 

 number of i)ottery 

 whistles somewhat 

 similar to the fore- 

 going (fig. 242). Six 

 of these are of tol- 

 erably fine clay with 

 the usual red painted 

 surface, and are ex- 



Fiff. 243. 



POTTERY WHISTLE, ORNAMENTED. 



Tlaltelolco, Mexico. 



Cat. No. 9910S, U.S.N.M. |J natural size. 



tremely crude representations of birds. The others, a dozen or more, 

 were exceedingly rough, unpainted, and nearly all spherical. None of 

 the instruments had more than one finger hole and consequently a 

 scale of only two notes. 



Fig, 243 represents another instrument of the class, with more elab- 

 orate ornamentation. It has but one finger hole, and with the normal 

 force in blowing the following tones are produced: 



By using more force the lower note can be raised a full tone, thus: 



the higlier note not being aftected. Specimen, Cat. No. 27870 (U.S.N.M.) 



