The rattles (or she-she-quois) most generally used are
made of rawhide, which becomes very hard when dry,
and charged with pebbles or something of the kind,
which produce a shrill noise to mark the time m their
dances and songs. Their drums are made in a very
rude manner, oftentimes with a mere piece of rawhide
stretched over a hoop, very much in the shape of a tam-
bourine, and at other times are made in the form of a
keg, with a head of rawhide at each end; on these they
beat with a drum-stick, which oftentimes itself is a



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rattle, the bulb or head of it being made of rawhide and
filled with pebbles. In other instances the stick has at
its end a little hoop wound and covered with buclcslun,
to soften the sound, with which they beat on the drum
with great violence as the chief and heel-ins pirtng
sound for all their dances, and also as an accompani-
ment for their numerous and never-ending songs of
amusement, of thanksgiving, and medifine or metai.
