General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . work, and in textilefabrics. In the cases directly in front of the en-trance, the gold and silver objects, suchas beads, cups, pins, plates, and ear orna-ments, show the high degree of skill at-tained in the beating, soldering, and cast-ing of metals. In weaving, the Peruvians were per-haps preeminent among prehistoric peo-ples of the world, many of their textilesexhibited here being unsurpassed at thepresent day. The materials used were cot-ton and the wool of the llama, alpaca, anilvicuna. In the cases near the
General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . work, and in textilefabrics. In the cases directly in front of the en-trance, the gold and silver objects, suchas beads, cups, pins, plates, and ear orna-ments, show the high degree of skill at-tained in the beating, soldering, and cast-ing of metals. In weaving, the Peruvians were per-haps preeminent among prehistoric peo-ples of the world, many of their textilesexhibited here being unsurpassed at thepresent day. The materials used were cot-ton and the wool of the llama, alpaca, anilvicuna. In the cases near the entrance areexamples of these textiles and the fibers,spindles, thread, looms and other equip-ment used in their manufacture. On the right side of the hall are col- MUSICAL WIND INSTRUMENTS OF ANCIENT PERU. The wind instruments of the ancientinhabitants of Peru, as illustrated below, included the panpipe or syrinx shown in the center;resonator whistles, (right); trumpets of clay and shell; a great variety of simple whistles; and the double whistling jar, (lower left) ?/LlS.
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