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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 



Tlie following? is copied from Mr. McNiel's label attached to the drum: 



Griivc at Moritana del IJufo, DLvala. This and 14 canteros, 1 stool, 5 stone hatch- 

 ets, 3 "spincrs," and human bones, seem to have been the outfit of a musician. 



Mr. Holmes continues (p. 159, fig. 237): 



Tlie decorated specimen illnstrated in tig. 237 [our fig. 275] is imperfect, a few 

 inclies of the base having been lost. The shape is rather more elegant than that of 

 the other specimen, and the surface is neatly finished and polished. The ground 

 color, or slip, is a warm yellow gray, and the decoration is in red and black. The 

 rim, or upper margin, is rather rudely finished and is i)ainted red, and on the exte- 

 rior is made slightly concave and furnished with a raised 

 band to facilitate the attachment of the head. 



Rattles. — The instruments of this class from 

 Chiriqui are gourd -sb aped, and the majority are 

 painted and decorated in the same manner as 



the whistles and other 



pottery obj ects from tb at 



Fig. 276. 



BATTLE OF PAINTED WARE. 

 Chiriqui. 



Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnol- 

 ogy, fig. 233. Cat. No. 109628, U.S.N. M. 

 ^ natural size. 



Fig. 277. 



SECTION OF RATTLE SHOWN IN 

 FIG. 276. 



Fig. 278. 



RATTLE OF PLAIN WARE SUR- 

 MOUNTED BY TWO GROTESQUE 

 FIGURES. 



Chiriqui. 



Cat. No. 132761, U.S.N.M. I, natural size. 



locality. There are slit like openings on the upper part of the body, 

 and the sound is produced by a number of small clay pellets inside. 

 The handle is hollow in most cases, and probably served as a whistle. 

 In some specimens the neck is perforated for suspension. The details 

 of their construction are shown in figs. 276 and 277,^ the latter a section 

 drawing. The sounds produced are weak in comparison with the rat- 

 tles of the modern Indian, but they may have occupied an important 

 l)lace in the ceremonies of a primitive people. 



Specimen, Oat. No. 131437 (U.S.N.M.) is a rattle of plain ware with 

 a solid handle. In fig. 278^ is shown a rattle of plain ware. The 



' Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1884-85, p. 157, figs. 233, 234. 

 2 Idem., fig. 235. 



