BAGPIPES 4000 YEARS AGO.
Professor John Garstang, speaking of.tho result of. excavations which lie had carried i put in Asia Minor during tho last two years, i, referred ospooi&lly to information which had e come to light-regarding the liittitos, who, ho '• CE .id, wore "no single nation, but a oonfedoraoy of peoples of different raccs and origin united' against tho Pharaohs. One of tho sculptures was interesting to Scotsman, it) i- being tie first representation of, a man play--11 ing tho bagpipes, accompanied by n. porson . J' wlio was obviously playing tho banjo. Tho □ crcscent and rose figured prominently ia > Hittito sculpture, and ho considered that • 1 that had given rise to tho prosunt Turkish I star and orescent. Going ( amongst tho I. people at. tho present day, bo was forced '• to realiso that ho was in tho prcsonco of '• living Hittitcs, owing to tho likeness between s tho peoplo of to-day and tlio fncc? portrayed by the ancient sculptors. , ■ '
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 519, 28 May 1909, Page 9
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160BAGPIPES 4000 YEARS AGO. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 519, 28 May 1909, Page 9
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