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THE third instalment of Dr. Kaudern's reports on his ethnographical expedition to Celebes in 19171920 deals with the musical instruments of the island as a whole, although the original intention was to deal with those of the Toradja. As so frequently happens, however, he found that the study of distribution of the instruments used by these tribes only lacked completeness without a study of all the groups. His own collection of instruments was large—the list given here runs to several pages—but it was in itself insufficient for his purpose. In drawing upon the material in several museums, the data of provenance, etc., were at times inadequate, and to this extent, as he himself confesses, from the absence of his own personal observation, there is necessarily sometimes a lack of precision in the information available.
Ethnographical Studies in Celebes.
By Dr. Walter Kaudern. Results of the Author's Expedition to Celebes, 1917-1920. Vol. 3: Musical Instruments in Celebes. Pp. xiii + 322. (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1927.) 20s. net.
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Ethnographical Studies in Celebes. Nature 121, 277 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121277a0
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