KELIQTTLE AQTJITANIOE. 



surely some meaning; for in certain specimens, to make the hole, it has been necessary to 

 destroy a portion of the figures which had already been carved. E. L. 



A Lapland drumstick (or hammer-like implement used for tapping the Magic Drum) in the 

 Dresden Museum, and another in the Museum at Geneva, have been noticed by Mr. Franks, 

 during visits made last year, to be made of a piece of Reindeer-horn, where a branch goes off 

 at right angles from the beam of the antler, the former being the handle, and the hammer-like 

 part, or head, consisting of the latter; whilst the triangular portion, where branch and stem 

 meet, is perforated with a round hole, reminding us of this style of ornament in the implements 

 from Dordogne, figured in B. Plates III. & IV., though the perforation has not the same relative 

 place in all the latter specimens. The Lapland tapping- sticks are described in J. Scheffer's 

 'Lapponia' (Frankfurt, 1673), p. 131, as made of Reindeer's antler; and the two figured by 

 Scheffer at page 125 consist of similar parts of the antler, where a branch goes off at right 

 angles from the stem, and the broad portion where they meet has in one case, it seems, been 

 either carved into a semicircular notch, or perforated and then pared away until only one half 

 of the hole is left. This specimen (see fig. 35) has a running ornament of the " key-pattern ''' ; 

 and one in Dr. G. Klemm's Collection, at Dresden, shown in fig. 34, p. 53, has, besides the hole 

 (which is encircled with a radiate pattern), zigzag marks for ornament, somewhat similar to those 

 borne by the North- American horn implements (figs. 15 and 32). The two figures given by 

 Scheffer are here reproduced in figs. 35 and 36. The wizard tapping the drum at page 139 



Figs. 35 and 36. 



Copies of Scheffer's figures of the Hammer for tapping the Magic Drum of the Laplanders. 



of Scheffer's 'Lapponia' holds in his hand a hammer that may be either one of the above 

 (allowing for difference of scale), or a terminal piece of an antler where it branches at the 

 end symmetrically and nearly horizontally, as is not unusual. T. R. J. 



1 The ear-bone, or os petrosum, of a Whale, carved with numerous entangled human figures, 

 brought from the region under notice, is preserved in the collection of A. G. Dallas, Esq., of the 

 Hudson-Bay Company. T. R. J. 



In the Philippine Islands it is, according to M. Roulin, the "rocher" or "os petrosum" 



