624 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 



mi 



ii 



Hlfldti 



Fig. 272. 



BONE WHISTLE. 



Costa Kica. 



Cat. \... IMnii, r.S.N.M. 



g natural size. 



:W 



.6 



1 



:Si 



© 



© 



10 



Fig. 273. 

 BONE FLAGEOLET. 



Costa Rica. 



Cat. No. 18108, U.S.N.M. 

 § natural size. 



ing', the notes shown in the 

 following scale are possible: 



8va. 



Jt 





+- 

 -I— 



_-t. 



I 



Other combinations of linger- 

 ing only produce notes which 

 are already given. It will be 

 seen that, contrary to all the 

 instruments before described, 

 the lowest note is not made with 

 alltlie sound holes closed. Why 

 this should be so I am unable 

 toexplain. Perhaps the pecul- 

 iar shape of the bone may ac- 

 count for it. 



South America, 

 chiriqui, colombia. 



The most important group 

 of prehistoric musical instru- 

 ments in the Museum in i)oint 

 of numbers is from Chiriqui, 

 deposited by Mr. J. A. Mci^iel. 

 It embraces drums, rattles, and 

 whistles of pottery, and a num- 

 ber of bronze bells. Many of 

 these have been figured by Mr. 

 W. H.Holmes in his interesting 

 paper on "Ancient art in the 

 Province of Chiriqui," ^ and his 

 descriptions have been here 

 freely used. Whatever will be 

 said in addition relates to ex- 

 amples not figured by him, and 

 is mostly from a musical stand- 

 point, all of the wind instru- 

 ments having been tested for 

 the ijurpose of showing their 

 capacity or possibilities in that 

 direction. 



' Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, p. 156. 



