[214] Howitt, in Journal of the Anthropological Institute, xvi, 327 ff.
[215] Miss Fletcher, Indian Ceremonies, p. 263 n.
[216] Miss Kingsley, Studies, p. 126.
[217] E. F. im Thurn, Indians of Guiana, vii, iv, 5.
[218] E. F. im Thurn, op. cit., vi.
[219] Of the same simple festive nature as dances are the plays or sports that are not infrequent among savages and half-civilized tribes. In the Areoi dramatic performances priests are ridiculed (W. Ellis, Polynesian Researches, p. 187).
[220] Miss Fletcher, "Emblematic Use of the Tree in the Dakotan Group" (in Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1896).
[221] So among the hill tribes of North Arracan (Journal of the Anthropological Institute, ii, 239) and the North American Indians (Featherman, Races of Mankind, division iii, part i, p. 37 etc.). Such dances are performed by the Tshi women in the absence of the men (A. B. Ellis, The Tshi, p. 226).
[222] See below, § 903, on imitative magic.
[223] Riedel, in Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, xvii.