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end is truncated (fig. 236, C, D) or carved into a “tail” (A, B). In 
the former case, which is so cut that a septum is left in situ about its 
center, the septum is centrally perforated and the ventholes drilled 
below it. In the latter there is a wax partition inserted within the 
instrument between the second and third ventholes. This artificial 
diaphragm has either a single large central perforation, the general 
A 
Fic. 236.—Flageolets. A, Taruma; B, C, Waiwai and Parikuta; D, Parikuta. 
condition, or occasionally (Taruma) a small central one surrounded 
by four others. Some of the Parikuta instruments (fig. 286 D) have 
two longitudinal slits, one on each side, near their distal extremities 
(JO). Bamboo flageolets also come from the Trio and Oyana 
(GOK, pl. vu, fig. 9). 
564. Certain limb bones of various animals—e. g., jaguar, dog, 
tapir, deer—may be utilized for bone flageolets (pl. 164). The 
medullary contents of such a bone will be scraped and picked out 
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