[224] Haddon, Head-hunters, p. 139.
[225] Journal of American Folklore, xvii, 32. Cf. the dance for the benefit of a sick man (R. B. Dixon, "Some Shamans of Northern California," op. cit., xvii, 23 ff.).
[226] Journal of American Folklore, iv, 307. Cf. Will and Spinden, The Mandans, pp. 129 ff., 143 ff. The gods themselves, also, have their festive dances (W. Matthews, Navaho Legends, p. 83), and are sometimes represented as the authors of the sacred chants (ibid. p. 225).
[227] See W. Matthews, loc. cit.
[228] See, further, Journal of American Folklore, iii, 257; iv, 129; xii, 81 (basket dances); R. B. Dixon, The Northern Maidu, p. 183 ff. (numerous and elaborate, and sometimes economic); Robertson, Kafirs of the Hindu-Kush, chap. 33; N. W. Thomas, Australia, chap. 7. Thomas describes many Australian games, and Dixon (The Shasta, p. 441 ff.) Californian games. For stories told by the natives of Guiana see above, § 106.
[229] 2 Sam. vi, 5.
[230] Tylor, Primitive Culture, ii, 133 f., 409 f.
[231] A. B. Ellis, The Tshi, p. 226.
[232] So, probably, the Old-Hebrew ark.
[233] See the references in article "Circumambulation" in Hastings, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics.