PREHISTORIC ART. 



627 



haiKlle is represented as a separate piece laslied on with cords. On the 

 upper end of the handle are two grotesque human figures standing 



back to back. 

 The followincr 



Fig. 279.. 



BRONZE BELLS, PLATED OR WASHED WITH GOLD. 



Chiriqui. 



Cat. No. 74675, U.S.N.M. Natural size. 



BRONZE BELL WITH HUMAN 

 FEATURES. 

 Chiriqui. 



Stearns Collection. 



specimens are all gourd-shaped rattles of painted ware, similar in form 

 and construction to fig. 276 (Cal. Nos. 109G2(>, 109G27, 109028, l(»9r,L>9, 



1096;J0, 109031, 109632, 109647, and 

 131436, U.S.N.M.). 



METAL INSTRUMENTS. 



Bronze hells. — The descriptions 

 and illustrations here given of me- 

 tallic objects are mostly taken from 

 Mr. Holmes's paper.' 



Bells seeiu to have beeu in pretty gen- 

 eral use by the more ciiltiired American 

 races i)revious to the conquest. The form 

 best known is the hawk bell, or common 

 sleigh bell of the North. The globnlar 

 body is suspended by a loop at the top and 

 is slit on the under side, so that the tink- 

 ling of the small free pellets of metal 

 may be audible. Such bells are found in 

 considerable numbers in the graA-es of 

 Chiriqui, although I have no positive 

 assurance that any of the examples in 

 my possession were actually taken from 

 graves which contained typical Chiri'iiiian 

 relics of other chisses. The specimens 

 now in the National Museum (lig. 41) 

 [our fig. 279] are in most cases, if not in 



B. Risriis, of the chemical laboratorv 



Fig. 281. 



TRIPLE BELL OR RATTLE OF GOLD. 



Chiriqui. 



Stearns CoNertion. 



all, of bronze, as determined by Mr. R 



of the United States Geological Survey. All have been cast in molds. In most 



' Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1884-85, pp. 49, 50, figs. 41, 

 42, 43. 



