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the top end. Three additional holes have been pierced, at 34 mm., 58 min., 
and 76 mm. from the top. The later-pierced holes can easily be distinguished 
from the others, being smaller and out of line; but it is impossible, except 
for a child with the slenderest fingers, to stop these holes, so close together 
are they. I have repeatedly endeavoured to sound this flute, but it and 
all those of bone, with the three equidistant holes, have completely baffled 
my attempts to sound them : I can get no more than a whistling suggestion 
of what the notes may be. There is, however, as much diversity in the 
proportions of the bone flutes as in the koauau. 
No help may be had from the putorino, or torino, or pu. This is also 
a flute-like instrument, much longer and larger than the koauau (Plate 84, — 
figs. 1-5). Its bore is irregular, swelling in the centre, and contracting at 
either end, the lower end being much smaller than the upper. In order to 
make the cavity in this instrument, the outside was first shaped, when the — 
wood was split into equal halves, and the two halves hollowed out canoe-  — 
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on either side of the central constriction. The opening of the putorino 
often resembles such a mouth, one of which is perfectly illustrated at p. 149 — 
drawing plate 26 of his interesting ‘Journal,’ figure 24; 
describing it he says: ‘A whistle made x wood having the outside. 
