Tattooing very Ancient and almost Universal-In some Places Men and in others Women only Tattooed-Two Distinct Modes of Operation-I. By Cuts Cicatrized. II. By Pricks with Colouring Matter rubbed in-Cicatrization in Australia and Africa-Three Cuts on Cheek in West Africa-Same Mark on Ancient Bronze Head in Italy-Cicatrization in Andaman and Admiralty Islands and Timor Laut-Tattooing in New Zealand -Among the Nagas of India-In Borneo-In New Guinea-- Among the Haidahs and Eskimo-Tattoo Marks on Chin of Women-Denotes Marriage-Tribal Marks-On Shell Masks— Importance of the Subject of Pre-historic Commerce-Cups of Similar Pattern in Mycenæ, Corneto, and Cornwall-The Golden Armour of Mold-Lunulæ in Ireland and in Corneto- Buttons and Fibula-Were they Manufactured in Ireland, and of Irish Gold?-Identity of Various Articles in Ireland and Etruria-Irish Legends-Firbolgs and Leather Bags of Miners-- Gold the Attraction to the Etruscans-Ingots of Gold in Irish Bogs-The Tumuli of New Grange and Dowth possibly Etruscan —Vallancy's Reference to Etruscan Games-Mr. Walhouse on Pre-historic Commerce with India-The Beryl-Barter-Jade Scottish Bells-Belief in Music for expelling Disease-Antiquity of Cymbals-Bells and Gongs in China-The Bell of St. Patrick Inflatile Instruments-Flutes in Paleolithic Times-Pandean Pipes Ornithoparcus on Jubal-George Eliot's Poem-The Bag- pipe-The Horn and the Trumpet-Etruscan Bronze Trumpets found in Ireland-Trumpets of an Enemy's Arm-bone-Hebrew Trumpets-Egyptian, Assyrian, Etruscan, and Greek Pipes and Double Pipes-The Nose-Flute-Chinese Bamboo Flutes-Flutes of Peru and Mexico-Egyptian Reed Pipes with Straws Inserted Traditional Origin of the Lyre-The Tortoise in Asia and America The Search for Osiris-Transferred to Orpheus-Same Myth in Mexico and Peru-The Lyre in South and West Africa -The Bent Bow the Precursor of the Harp-Egyptian and Assyrian Harps-Old Irish Harp-Semitic Lyre-The Lyre of Apollo-The Shell of the Tortoise imitated in Gourds-The Plectrum in the East-The Vina, or Bina-Strings of the Lyre vary in Number-Pythagorean Lyre-The Three Measures—The Story of Orpheus-Introduced into Britain by the Romans- Tesselated Pavements-Diodorus Siculus and Stonehenge-Sun LIST OF PRINCIPAL WORKS REFERRED TO IN THE FOLLOWING PAGES. 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