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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- 

 He has this to say of them : 



sembling the human form 



"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." J 



The trumpet in its 

 various forms is un- 

 doubtedly one of the 

 most ancient of wind 

 instruments, and its 



distribution 

 Trumpet • , . , 



r m prehistoric 



times was all but uni- 

 versal. Two forms ofj— 

 this instrument were 

 common in Peru: the 

 conch and a trumpet of 

 terra cotta. Both of 

 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 lea, 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 repousse 

 work. 



Fig. i -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 



1 Trawls amongst the Great Andes of the Equator, p. 281. 



GOLD ORNAMENT FROM ICA, PERU 



