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jinimals. The tips of the ears, feet, and tail are red. Rows of red strokes, alteruat- 

 iiig with black, extend in a broad stripe from the ])oint of the nose to the base of the 

 neck. Red panels, inclosing rows of red dots and enframed by Idack lines, cross the 

 back. On the sides we have oblong spaces tilled in with conventional devices so 

 common in other animal re])resentation8. 



'I'lie legs are striped and dotted after the .••' "•.._ 



usual manner. /' ) 



Its three notes are as follows: 



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In fig. 292 is shown a painted 

 whistle with four ocelot-like heads. 

 Tiiis is reproduced from Mr. 

 Holmes's paper (p. lOS, fig-. 252), 

 and his description in part is here 

 given : 



The instrument consists of an oblong 

 body, to which four o<elot-like heads 

 are fixed, one at each end and the others 

 at the sides. It rests upon four feet, in 

 oue of which the mouthpiece is placed. 

 The linger holes are in the side of the 

 body, near the legs, as seen in the cut. 

 The decoratiou, which consists of more 

 or less conventional representations of 

 the skin markings of the animal, is in 

 black and red. 



Its notes are three, as follows: 



Fig. 293 represents an alligator- 

 shai)ed whistle of painted ware. 

 This is the largest specimen in tlie collection, and Mr. Holmes, in 

 s))eaking of it (p. 100, fig. 2."»0), says: 



The air chamber is large, aud the sounds emitted are full and melodious and aire 

 lower in pitch than those of any other instrument in the collection. The cavity in 

 Ihe month and head is sepaiafed from the body chamber, and, with the addition of 

 earthen pellets, probably served as a rattle. The mouthpiece is in the tail and the 

 finger holes are in the sides of the body. 



Its three notes are shown in the accompanying scale: 



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