602 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 



The nioutlipiece is broken off and missing, and whether the sounds 

 produced were in unison or not it is impossible to determine. 



The instrument represented by fig. 251 is more like the modern flag- 

 eolet in shape than any in tlie series. The lower part is missing, but 

 its probable outline is indicated in the sketch by the dotted lines. It 



is modeled of gray-colored clay, 

 highly polished, and has band 

 decorations in red. The long, slen- 

 der mouthpiece and upper part of 

 the cylinder containing two finger 

 holes is all that remains. Entire, 

 it probably had four holes, the 

 usual number in instruments of 

 this shape. The notes that can be 

 produced now are as follows : 



:=t:=tzi=ti=:t: 



I 



This, of course, hardly gives an 

 idea of the pitch and compass of 

 the instrument originally. Speci- 

 men, Cat. No. 133212 (U.S.KM.) 

 evidently belongs to this class — 

 nothing remaining, however, but 

 the mouthpiece and enough of the 

 cylinder to produce one note, thus : 



Efefe 



Fig. 248. 

 POTTEEY WHISTLE, CARICATURE OF HUMAN FACE. 



Ruins near Cordova, Mexico. 



Cat. No. S316, U.S.N.M. % natural size. 



Professor Kollman^ describes 

 an instrument (one of twenty- 

 four) of this class from Mexico, 

 deposited in the ethnographic col- 

 lection in Basel. It is fig. 1 (Flote, 

 (j;09oloctli) of the previously mentioned paper, and a translation of 

 his description kindly furnished by Mr. C. W. Shoemaker, of the 

 Department of International Exchanges, Smithsonian Institution, 

 here follows : 



Tho bell mouth is ornamented on the outer surface (fig. 1). The ornaments are 

 apparently done by hand. They make a neat finish, which shows a taste for regular 

 ornamentation and an advanced technique in the working of the, in itself, somewhat 

 ungrateful material. The ornamentation of the bell mouth is often very rich and 

 elegant. 



» Adolf Bastian, Festschrift znm 26 Juni, 1896, pp. 560, 561. See p. 596. 



