[345] Spencer, Essays, ii. pp. 433-435 (The Origin of Music).
[346] On the stimulating influence which women may exercise on warriors, and on the sensitiveness of warriors to female appreciation or criticism, see for example Spencer, Descr. Soc. Div. I. Nr. iii. p. 60 (Tasmanians); Nr. v. p. 3 (Bedouins); Mantegazza, Physiologie des Hasses, pp. 143-145.
[347] Gurney, Power of Sound, p. 159, quoted by Wallaschek, Primitive Music, p. 211.
[348] Wallaschek, l.c. pp. 210-213.
[349] Hudson, The Naturalist in La Plata, p. 279.
[350] Groos, The Play of Animals, pp. 244, 245.
[351] Darwin, The Descent of Man, ii. pp. 387-409.
[352] Berchon, “Le tatouage,” in Actes de l’Académie de Bordeaux, 1885, pp. 806, 807. Cf. also Joest, Tätowiren, pp. 29, 53-55, 60-65. Although Berchon himself remarks (p. 811) that in Polynesia the reverence for tattooing is dying out, he has not happened to think that this circumstance may have been the cause of the laxity in tattoo composition.
[353] Cf. Cook, (1st) Voyage, pp. 206-208; cf. p. 265 (Tahiti). For other Polynesian erotic dances see Marques in Boletim da Sociedade de Geographia de Lisboa, viii. p. 60 (Samoa); Turner, Samoa, p. 125; Gill, South. Pacific, p. 20 (Hervey Islands); Rienzi, Océanie, iii. p. 160 (Maori Slave Girls). On Polynesian dance parties, arranged in order to bring into notice the daughters of the chiefs and nobles, cf. Gill, From Darkness to Light, pp. 29, 253 (Mangaia); Ellis, Pol. Res. i. pp. 215-217 (Tahiti); Vancouver, Voyage, i. p. 119. (Tahiti). Examples of similar dances and pantomimes, often in plain connection with sexual orgies, can be found among Australians and Melanesians. Cf. especially Eyre, Expeditions into Central Australia, ii. p. 235; Mathew in Curr, Australian Race, iii. pp. 168, 169 (Mary River Natives). Koeler in his list of Australian words describes “Korrobbora” as an obscene dance-pantomime performed by men before the women; Monatsber. d. Ges. für Erdkunde zu Berlin, iii. p. 53; Mathews in Journ. Anthr. Inst. xxv. pp. 226-228 (Kamilaroi); Woods, Native Tribes, p. 38 (Taplin, “The Narrinyeri”), p. 243 (Schürmann, “Port Lincoln Tribe,” men and women dancing some rounds together); Spencer and Gillen, Native Tribes, p. 381. Few of these facts, however, entitle us to assume a simple purpose of pleasing the opposite sex.
[354] Burton, Zanzibar, i. pp. 430, 431; Ellis, West African Sketches, p. 226 (Country Dance in Mankessin); Laing, Travels, pp. 104, 105 (Timannees); Nachtigal, Sahărâ und Sûdân, i. pp. 101, 102 (Murzuk, Fezzân); Sparrman, Resa, i. p. 421 (Hottentots). For general descriptions of this kind of dancing see Fr. Müller, Allgemeine Ethnographie, p. 172.