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Catalogue of the Crosby Brown Collection of musical instruments, 1914
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1other, which is called sam-po-na, is a musical bow made of the "spine" of a fish bent with a cord; one end is placed in the mouth while the other is held in the hand; it is played with another "spine".1 He also describes the jul of the Mayas as a small bow, or arch, made from a bejuco (vine), strung with a cord and held with the cord to the mouth; air is breathed upon it and it is caused to vibrate by striking with a small stick.2
2The Pueblo Indians of New Mexico have a bow of this type, the native name of which is thlin-thlin-no-me.
3cf. U. S. Nat. Museum Coll. No. 48,089. Mason. Amer. Anthrop. 10, p. 379, 1897.
53318 VIOLIN. European model. Unvarnished wood, stained red. The peg-box finished in a rudely carved scroll. Texcoco, Central Mexico.
6Length, 1 foot 7 inches. Width, 5 inches.
8563 VIOLIN. European model. Unvarnished wood rudely carved.
9Length, 2 feet. Width, 10 inches.
11CLASS II WIND INSTRUMENTS
131946 WHISTLE. Pottery. Seated figure of an old priest wearing the maxtli or loin cloth, the right arm raised, the left leg doubled under. The head is shaved high above the temples, leaving the hair upright in the center and falling over the ears, a style characteristic of the order. The whistle is in the right arm.
14Height, 2 3/4 inches.
15These whistles and rattles are often modeled in the forms of the various deities of Ancient Mexico, each householder, according to his rank, being allowed a certain number of domestic idols. Writing on this subject Hamy3 quotes Clavigero, as follows: "Tepitoton,' dit Clavigero,4 'était le nom que donnaient les Mexicains à leurs penates ou dieux domestiques, et aux idoles qui les repre-
171. See also Appendix, p. 258.
182. cf. Notes, 1902, p. 17.
193. Galerie Américaine du Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro. 1897.
204. Storia antica del Messico cavata da miglioro storici spagnuoli e da' manoscritti, e dalle pitture antiche degl'Indian, etc., Cesena, 1780.
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