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reed. At this point the tube is scooped out, leaving the natural barrier 

 or division exposed. This formed a stop, which deflected the current 

 of air (when blown into the open end) in the same manner as does the 

 transverse ridge of asphaltum in the bone whistles from California 

 heretofore described (p. 567). The outer surface is ornamented with 

 incised bands and dots, which appear to have been burnt in. The speci- 

 men is so much weathered that no definite sound is emitted. A smaller 

 whistle from the same cavern differs only in having both ends open. 

 The lateral hole is at the joint, as in the foregoing. These instruments 

 are a part of a collection obtained by Mr. Edward Palmer, who made 

 the exploration in 1887.' 



A flageolet, obtained from the Yaqui Indians of Sonora, Mexico, is 

 shown in tig. 2iM\. It is made of cane, strengthened with bands of sinew. 

 There are three sound holes, two on the upper surface near the lower 

 end, and one below (which does not show in the drawing), placed 

 between the third and fourth bands from the lower end. Length, 21f 

 inches. A wooden plug cut away on one side so as to leave an air 

 passage was inserted at the upjDer end and formed the mouthpiece. 



Fig. 255. 



WHISTLE MADE FROM HOLLOW KEED. 



Cavern, Bay of Angela, Lower California. 



Cal. No. i:»588, U.S.X.M. % ntitural size. 



During the ijrogress of this paper, Mr. Wilson, profiting by his 

 attendance as Commissioner General of the United States at the Brus- 

 sels International Exposition, 1897, visited the extensive Musce Instru- 

 mental of the Conservatory of Music of Brussels. Its curator, M. 

 Mahillon, himself a musical-instrument maker, having devoted much 

 time, labor and money to its successful accomplishment, has united the 

 musical instruments of all nations. He has prepared an analytic and 

 descriptive catalogue of the instruments under his charge, which 

 greatly increases the value of the collection. The policy of tlie Bel- 

 gian Government has been to invoke for the benefit of the Museum the 

 aid of its foreign representatives in the procuration of local instru- 

 ments, whether primitive or modern. As a result, it has been, through 

 the good offices of M. Dorenberg, Belgian consul at Puebla, ]\[exico, 

 the fortunate recipient of a collection of Mexican instruments, all of 

 wiiich are primitive, but quite a number prehistoric. These include the 

 ToponaztU (Spanish Atabal) or drum, the Marimba, and the Chirimia (a 

 sort of hautboy), and are said to be used together forming a primitive 

 band. Along with these is a series, twenty-five, more or less, of whistles 

 or flageolets similar to those heretofore represented. They figure in the 

 INIusenm catalogue as ISTos. 819-821, 832-856, inclusive. :\Iost of them 

 are apparently without holes and give but a single note which is remark- 



' Report U. S. Nat. Mas., 1888, p. 127. 

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