24 THE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS OF THE INCAS. 
Whymper, who gives an excellent account of the Incan re- 
mains in Ecuador, figures three of these whistles grotesquely re- 
sembling the human form. He has this to say of them: 
“Then there are the musical pottery whistles, delightfully ugly 
things, which are sometimes more useful to carry than letters of 
introduction. Simple airs can be got out of them, and on the home- 
ward journey my people lightened the way by playing on these primi- 
tive instruments.” ? 
The trumpet in its 
various forms is un- 
doubtedly one of the 
most ancient of wind 
instruments, and its 
distribution 
in prehistoric 
times was all but uni- 
versal. Two forms of 
this instrument were 
common in Peru: the 
conch and a trumpet of 
terra cotta: -Boiiies 
these forms are shown 
in the accompanying 
figure. 
This illustration 
shows the ornamentation on one side of a gold ornament found 
in a prehistoric grave at Ica, Peru. It is double-convex in form, 
consisting of two thin, concavo-convex pieces which are not 
joined by solder, as is sometimes the case in ornaments of this 
kind, but are held together by the edges of one of the pieces 
being turned tightly over the other. The figures are in repoussé 
work. 
Fig. 1 of Plate III represents a remarkably fine specimen 
of the shell trumpet. It has a copper mouth-piece, and is 
ornamented with an engraved figure of a warrior. The shell 
is a Strombus galeatus, Swains. Unfortunately the mouth-piece 
Trumpet 
GOLD ORNAMENT FROM ICA, PERU. tf 
« Travels amongst the Great Andes of the Equator, p. 281. 
