[197] For examples of pictorial art subservient to such purely practical purposes see Mallery, l.c. x. pp. 329-375.
[198] Im Thurn, Primitive Games, pp. 273, 275.
[199] Roth, N.W.C. Queensland Aborigines, pp. 117, 118. Oldfield (“The Aborigines of Australia,” in Trans. Ethnol. Soc. N.S. iii. p. 257) describes a Watchandie pantomime, imitating the proceedings of the white man in hunting whales, and composed by an old native who had some time before visited the coast.
[200] Wilson and Felkin, Uganda, ii. p. 45. For imitations of the white man in dramatic dances see also Lander, Clapperton’s Last Expedition, i. pp. 120, 121; Cook, Voyage Towards the South Pole (2 Voy.), i. p. 368.
[201] Cook, Voyage Towards the South Pole (2 Voy.), i. p. 356 (Huaheine).
[202] Levertin, Fars och farsörer, p. 78, especially the quotation from Chappuy’s “L’avare cornu” (1580).
[203] For songs describing the incidents in a travel see Batchelor, The Ainu, pp. 123, 124; Chamisso, in Kotzebue’s Reisen, iii. p. 67 (Radack); Woods, Native Tribes, pp. 38, 39 (Taplin, “The Narrinyeri”); Grey, Journals, ii. p. 253; Polack, New Zealanders, ii. pp. 167, 168. On current events as subjects of primitive poetry cf. Bonwick, Tasmanians, p. 29; Kingsley, Travels, p. 66, (Bubis); Curr, Australian Race, iii. p. 169 (Mathew, Mary River Natives); Metz, Neilgherry Hills, p. 30 (Todas); Ahlqvist, Acta Soc. Scient. Fenn. xiv. (“Wogulen und Ostjaken”); Day, Proceedings of the As. Soc. 1870, p. 157 (Observ. on the Andamanese); Ehrenreich in Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, xix. p. 32 (Botokudos); Erman, Travels in Siberia, ii. pp. 42, 43 (Ostyak songs and pantomimes).
[204] Cf. Bonwick, Daily Life and Origin of the Tasmanians, p. 29; Lenz, Skizzen aus West Afrika, pp. 110, 111 (Abongos); Schneider, Die Naturvölker, ii. p. 235, 236 (Interior Africa).
[205] Cf. Eyre, Expeditions into Central Australia, ii. p. 240; Cruickshank, Eighteen Years on the Gold Coast, ii. p. 266.
[206] St. John, Far East, i. p. 114 (Kayans of Baram); Petherick, Egypt, p. 130 (Hassanyeh Arabs); Mollien, Travels, p. 74 (Joloffs).