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Manners and monuments of prehistoric peoples (1892)

Nadaillac, Jean-François-Albert du Pouget, marquis de, 1818-1904, D'Anvers, N., d. 1933 · New York, London : G.P. Putnam's sons · leaf 135

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hich may naturally be supposed tohave served the same purpose. The curious objectspreserved in the Christy collections must also havebeen used in vv^ar or in the chase. They bear, inaddition to the mark of their owner, notches of dif-ferent shapes commemorating his exploits in battleor in hunting.… … Fig. 30.—Whistle from the Massenat Collection. From whistles to regular musical instruments thetransition is simple. Without describing that men-tioned by M. de Lougperier, which we cannot confi-dently assert to be of great antiquity, M. Piette, in oneof his numerous excavations, discovered a…

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