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golden figures are alloyed with copper. Some of the most pure 
are 21^, and the least pure are not more than 11^ carats fine. 
The thin gold plates are about 2 1 ^ carats fine. 
The alloy of which the figures have been formed was prepared 
artificially, and is not native ; the objects have been cast, and 
some have been finished by hammering. 
Stone Implements, Gold Figures, and Pottery from the 
Chiriqui Huacas are shown in Cases A 41, C 32, E 8, 
H 19, AND H 2 1. 
The pottery found in the Chiriqui graves is very far in advance 
of that made by the Northern Indians. Many of the vessels are 
tripods, and these, frequently, have movable clay pellets in the 
hollow legs, which produce a rattling sound. 
A number of musical instruments have been obtained from 
the Chiriqui graves ; they are made of pottery, and areusually 
in the form of birds or animals. They range from one inch 
and a half to four inches and a half in length. The more 
perfect instruments have three finger-holes, to produce the first 
They are usually painted in red and black on a cream-coloured 
ground. 
No. I (S and D 28). — Small globular vessel with lip, of brown 
ware, painted red and relieved with black lines. 
No. 2 (S and D 44). — Small gourd-shaped vessel of brown 
ware, covered with a thick coating of white paint. Dr. Davis 
suggests that this object has been used as a lamp. 
No. 3 (S and D 78). — Cast of a musical instrument (whistle) 
in the form of some quadruped. The original is in the 
Collection of the American Ethnological Society. It is painted 
red and black on a cream-coloured ground, and measures nearly 
five inches in length. The whistle is at the tail of the 
animal. 
No. 4 (S and D 77). — Cast of a whistle in the form of a bird, 
the whistle being at the tail. This object is similar in material 
and colouring to No. 3. The original is in the Collection of 
the American Ethnological Society. 
E 8. 
three notes of the major scale of F — F, G, A, 
