417 



Fig. 34. Belt consisting of pierced teeth (fragment). ^/2. 



or four centimetres from the nearest finger-rest. — The oblique 

 hole in the narrow end of the handle must then have been 

 intended to receive a strap for hanging up the drum. 



Inv. Amd. 56 (Fig. 29 a) is a handle similar to the foregoing, 

 likewise made of a hollow bone (but probably of another animal) 

 somewhat smaller and more slender, scarcely 11'5 cm long, 

 having at the thick end a height of 2*2 cm, and a breadth 

 of 1 cm. It has suffered severely from climatic action, and is 

 almost entirely decayed at the narrow end. The drum-handle 

 type, however, is unmistakable; we see the finger-rests and 

 the remains of the knob-like head; whether a hole was pierced 

 in the latter, cannot be decided. On the other hand, there is, 

 in contradistinction to the foregoing, a transverse hole in the 

 broad end, to which the hoop of the drum was probably secured 

 by a lashing. 



Inv. Åmd. 57 (Fig. 34) is a collection of 53 teeth of a 

 mammiferous animal, which were found lying loose, all of them 

 pierced in a similar manner at the tip. In the case of some 

 of the holes it can be seen that they have been bored from 

 two sides. — 1 have strung the teeth on a cord, as is shown 

 in the illu.«tration; the chain, when stretched taut, measures 

 23 cm in length. 



These teeth have, without doubt, been used for some kind 

 of ornaments, as a primitive kind of beads, as part either of 



