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ground color is pale red, and there are traces of line decoration in black. 

 There are two sound holes, and its three notes are indicated in the fol- 

 lowing scale : 



Specimen, Cat. No. 109714 (CT.S.N'.M.) is a small whistle of the same 

 class. Upon the upper part is the figure of a bird with a suspension 

 hole passing through the body. The color is dark red without decora- 

 tion, and all surfaces are polished. There are two sound holes, and its 

 three notes are here given : 



T=S*=1 



Whistles in grotes<ine forms. — In this series are placed a limited num- 

 ber of instruments from Chiriqui, in which the human ligure is repre- 

 sented. Mr. Holmes,^ in speaking of these objects, says: 



The liuiuaii figure was occasioually utilized. The treatment, however, is extremely 

 rude aud conventional, the, features having the jieculiar sqnirrel-like character 

 shown in the figurines already given. The unique piece given in fig. 256 [our fig. 

 298] represents a short, clumsy female figure with a squirrel face, carrying a vessel 

 upon her back by means of a head strap, which is held in place by the hands. The 

 mouthpiece of the whistle is in the right elbow and one sound hole is in the middle 

 of the breast and the other in the left side. The costume and some of the details of 

 anatomy are indicated by red and black lines in th(; original. 



Its three notes are as follows : 



p ^ — #— r I 



Specimen, Oat. Ko. 109059 (U.S.N.M.) is a painted whistle repre- 

 senting a female. The ground color is light red, the mouth, arms, 

 and knees being outlined with stripes of darker color. The body is 

 short and broad, with stumpy legs set wide apart, and the arms are 

 attached to the body in relief. The hollow head contains a small clay 

 pellet, which produces a rattling- sound. A prolongation of the left 

 shoulder serves as a mouthpiece. There are two finger holes beneath 

 the right shoulder, one on the breast and the other nearly opposite on 

 the back. Its three notes are indicated in the accompanying scale: 



An instrument similar in form to the statuettes figured and described 

 1 Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1884-85, p. 170, fig. 256. 



