New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-27

plugs, which were ornaments OF distinction. The
left hand grasps shield, to which are fastened
short throwing darts. The right holds a great
battle axe
The other weapons used in warfare by the
Incas were sings for hurting stones clubs four
feet long, having five or six sharp points OF
metal or stone, and throwing lances fifteen feet
in length. Divisions of soldiers equipped with
these formed into attacking columns and
marched into battle. Forest animals and mari
time creatures of the period. notably the great
condor, with his helpless victim species OF fish
with huge eyes. ferocious tiger head set on a
human form, are some of the various and fire.
quently occurring forms of pottery A graceful
type, having two mouthpieces. is painted in bold
design to represent the mountain cat. Probably
one Of the most extraordinary and remarkable
pieces of pottery, from imaginative stand
point at least, is one depicting a resting llama
with a sleeping child snugly clinging to its warm
and heecy back
That the Incas were music loving people and
had made considerable advance in this art is
shown by numerous representations on pottery
vessel of performers In the act OF playing
upon their instruments, as well as by the
large number OF actual instruments obtained
In their religious worship, ceremonial dances
and martial airs for warfare music nee
essary feature and was widely employed. Charles
W. Mead, curator of the Department of Peru
Wan Archaeology, in recent monograph on this
subject, states that he was unable to discover
any authentic musical scale songs OF the
Incas, and the best and only source of informa-
ton is to be gained from the structure and char
acter OF the instruments themselves. It is com
monty believed that they employed the five
toned, or penatonic. scale SO widely used in the
primitive music of ancient peoples The most
important of their instruments were the drum
and Pan pipe. Both Of these are modelled In the
shape of water jars representing human FORMS
and give forcible idea of their construction and
appearance. The drums appear to be identical
with those In use in many parts Of Peru to-day.
and were made by stretching a skin over hoop
of wood.
The Pan pipe was a series OF reeds OF gradu-
ated length. held IN position by a crosspiecf-of
split cane dashed to the reed with a cord made
from the wool OF the llama The present ma
tives still dance to the beating OF the drum and
Pan pipe as did their ancestors many hundreds
of years ago. Nearly fifty different varieties OF
Instruments all OF percussion and wind, were
found Among these were some double whis-
fling Jars or musical water bottles Near the top
OF the first or front jar. which was usually sur
mounted by a human or animal figure, Is the
oDening Of the whistle. When the jars have
been partly filled and are swung backward and
forward a number of whistling sounds are pro-
duced. AS the vessel swings forward and up
ward the water is lowered in the first jar and
rotsed in the other. In the backward motion 1t
rushes back into the first. forcing the air out
tbrougb the whistle. One OF the new musical
discoveries heretofore unknown and worked out