648 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 



Tuhuiar or reed-shaped instrumenU. — The wliistling mechanism cor- 

 responds to that of other forms. The chamber is tubular and tlie lower 

 end open. Specimen, Cat. Ko. 109717 (U.S.I^.M.) is a tube of painted 

 ware without finger holes. The ground color is yellow, and there are 



Fig. 30G. 



TUBULAR INSTRUMENT WITH TWO FINGER HOLES. 



Chii'iqui. 



Cat. No. 109680, U.S.N.M. N.ltur.al size. 



bands of red at each end and one midway between. With ordinary 

 force in T)lowing, two notes nearly aii octave apart are obtained — the 

 lower with the end closed and the higher one with the end open : 



End closed. End open. 

 By using greater force in blowing, the following note is emitted; 



8va. 



■mm 



In fig. 30G is shown a tubular instrument with two finger holes. 

 Fig. 307 is a section of the same. The cuts are reproduced from Mr. 

 Holmes's jtaper,^ and his description is here given: ' 



Fig. 307. 



SECTIONAL VIEW OK FIG. 306. 



Perhaps the most satisfactory instrument in tlie whole collection, so far as range 

 is concerned, is shown in fig. 241 [our fig. 306], and a section is given in fig. 212 [our 

 lig. 307]. It is capable of yielding the notes indicated in the accompanying scale: 

 First a normal series of eight sounds, produced as shown in the diagram; and, 

 second, a series produced by blowing with greater force, one note two octaves above 



' Sixth Annual Report of ihe liureau of Ethnology, 1884-85, pp. 161, 162, tigs. 241, 242. 



