[374] Savage, New Zealand, pp. 84, 85; Ellis, Polynesian Res. i. p. 217 (Tahiti); Gill, The South. Pacific, p. 20; Romilly, My Verandah in New Guinea, p. 88.
[375] Sarasin, Ergebnisse, iii. p. 518.
[376] Cf. e.g. Johnston, British Central Africa, p. 408; Crawley, “Sexual Taboo,” passim, in Journ. Anthr. Inst. xxiv.
[377] Cf. e.g. Lütke, Voyage, ii. pp. 276, 277, on Tschuktschi dance; Cook, (3rd) Voyage, i. p. 251, on the dance of the Hapaee women, some of the motions in which would, by a European, be thought rather indecent, though perhaps they meant only to display the astonishing variety of their movements.
[378] Reeves, Brown Men and Women, p. 160.
[379] Curr, Austr. Race, iii. p. 169 (Mathew, Mary River), on songs describing the charms of a sweetheart. “Such songs are only known to a few individuals, and are sung in private.”
[380] Cook. (3rd) Voyage, ii. p. 149.
[381] Spencer, Descr. Soc. Division I. Nr. v. p. 30.
[382] Cf. Johnston, British Central Africa, p. 408.
[383] Schurtz, Das Augenornament, pp. 49, 54.