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somewhat in the color of the glazes by which they are covered. 
The flageolet shown in the illustration, Fig. 4 (which was found 
with several others at Tezcuco, in Mexico), is covered witha 
light-red glaze. In the B flat instrument the glaze is a dark-brown 
color, and in other fragments of pipes, of like kind and construc- 
tion, it is a heavy, vitreous glaze of a dark vermilion color, re- 
sembling that which covers the tips of the mouth-piece in the 
pitch-pipes. This glaze, in most cases, when the instrument is of 
alight color, is covered by one or two bands of a darker hue, 
generally placed as ornamentations between the first and second 
finger-holes, thus adding to the variety of the color, which would 
otherwise be monotonous. It is worthy of remark that orna- 
mental bands of paint overlie the original glaze in some cases, and 
pi as in the B flat instrument, they underlie and are covered 
it. 
Having considered the construction of the ancient Mexican 
pitch-pipes and four-holed flageolets of terra-cotta in all their 
Parts, externally and internally,.the student of aboriginal Ameri- 
= plastic art cannot fail to be impressed with the ingenious con- 
struction, artistic feeling and inventive power displayed by the 
barbarian people who fashioned them. This, it has been shown, 
was accomplished by modeling their terra-coitas upon forms (in 
ES probably made of polished bone or wood. The pieces 
or Sections produced upon the forms in question, were joined to- 
= while in a semi-dry or green state, by means of liquid or 
ae (which method is still used by our modern potters), thus 
ink the ancient Mexican clay-workers to finish their musical 
quite ments in parts. The use of piece-forms seems to have been 
be: common among the Nahuatalacs and the ancient clay- 
sts of Nicaragua,' Costa Rica and Peru in manufacturing 
1 The anci 
tion of go pottery manufactured hy those people who once occupied that por- 
aie tral America now called Nicaragua, suggests, by its superiority of exe- 
thes glaze, that the potter’s art here attained a higher degree of excellence 
vase, Figs, p 
Esq., wae and 4 (Plate XVII), brought from Nicaragua by the late F. G. Smith, 
i of US revealing its interior construction. It will be seen by an 
tion and legs Cenie drawing (showing a section thereof ) that the body por- 
illed in the ere hollow and filled by small clay balls, Itis the opinion of those 
Potter’s art that this unique tripod vase could not have been made ex- 
