Excerpt from The Musical Instruments of the Incas The entire absence Of drums and the large number Of flutes in the prehistoric Peruvian collections in museums would seem ti support this claim in Peru were it not for the fact that numerous pottery vessels decorated with figures in the act Of beating the drum are found with mummies in the ancient graves. (see Plates I and II.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.