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are used like the flute in ceremonial consecration of medicine as well 

 as to imitate bird calls. A whistle made by enclosing a leaf or grass 

 blade between two pottery disks is sometimes used (fig. 48). 



The Hopi use a flute consisting of a gourd having a sound hole. 

 This interesting object is a decoy for deer. (Cat. No. 22865. 

 U.S.N.M.) Gourd trumpets or megaphones supposed to represent 

 the hoarse bellowings of the great plumed serpent, are used in the 

 Pa lu lu hong ceremony. 



As will be seen from the descriptions above, the Hopi have merely 

 a few primitive instruments, the flute being the highest in the scale 

 of invention. No string instrument occurs among the Hopi. 



