. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 532 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. proper sound. Tlie iigure is taken from Antiquities Suedoises' by Montelius. Fig. 171 represents a liorn belonging to the Iron age (prebistoric), found in a peat bog in Sfklerinanbmd, Sweden. The middle portion is an ox horn of which only enough remains to show what material it was. The mountings are elab- orate and are attached at either end in such way as to lengthen the horn and increase its power as
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 532 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. proper sound. Tlie iigure is taken from Antiquities Suedoises' by Montelius. Fig. 171 represents a liorn belonging to the Iron age (prebistoric), found in a peat bog in Sfklerinanbmd, Sweden. The middle portion is an ox horn of which only enough remains to show what material it was. The mountings are elab- orate and are attached at either end in such way as to lengthen the horn and increase its power as a musical in- strument. The two mountings are attached by a bronze chain with long links, which has served for suspension or carrying. It is taken from The small ends of many of these horns were de- stroyed when found, and so it is undeterminable whether they were used for music or for drinking. Horns similar in all ap- pearance to these were in that country and in that epoch used for both purposes. Fig. 172 represents a horn, probably of the Iron age, with bronze mountings. It may have served for music or for drinking. It was ar- ranged with a long linked chain. It, with two others, was found in a burial tumulus at Soj- vide in Gotland, in a stone cist, with about five hundred bronze beads, two pottery vases, belonging to a single skeleton. The sjjecimens are in the National Museum in Stockholm, Sweden. Fig. 173 represents a bronze war trumpet taken from Worsaa\' It is. Volume I, p. 53, lig. 178. - Aucient Swedish Civilization, p. 107, fif •'La Colonisation dc la Rnssic et de Nord Scandinave, p. 72. ll!. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents; United States National Museum. Report of the U. S. National Museum; Smithsonian Institution. Report o
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