. Bulletin. Ethnology. '^^'""W^j mm^gm ; /> >'\)/^jy y n. d e f Figure 42.—Upper Xingii masks, a, Trumai; b, Camayura; c, Aueto; d, Camayura; e, Mehinacu; f, Bacdiri. (Redrawn from Steinen, 1894, figs. 118, 112, 314, 113, 104, 44.) to palm with fingers interlocked, taking three steps forward, pausing, and stepping back (Petrullo, 1932 a, p. 142). During another feast, clowns with big flageolets marched grotesquely from hut to hut, entering each while the women pretended to be frightened (Petrullo, 1932 a, p. 139). Von den Steinen described a Bacdiri ceremony that is possibly re
. Bulletin. Ethnology. '^^'""W^j mm^gm ; /> >'\)/^jy y n. d e f Figure 42.—Upper Xingii masks, a, Trumai; b, Camayura; c, Aueto; d, Camayura; e, Mehinacu; f, Bacdiri. (Redrawn from Steinen, 1894, figs. 118, 112, 314, 113, 104, 44.) to palm with fingers interlocked, taking three steps forward, pausing, and stepping back (Petrullo, 1932 a, p. 142). During another feast, clowns with big flageolets marched grotesquely from hut to hut, entering each while the women pretended to be frightened (Petrullo, 1932 a, p. 139). Von den Steinen described a Bacdiri ceremony that is possibly related to the last. Men gathered in the guest house and each, wearing a dance costume, rushed out in turn to enter some hut, from which he returned with an offering of food. Quain (ms.) says that although Trumai singing was not polyphonic, "its modulations seemed like classical ; Musical instruments.—All Indians dance with rattling anklets or necklaces of shells and seeds. Gourd rattles are common among the Bacdiri, Nahukzva, and Camayura, and tortoise-shell rattles among the Nahukwa (Steinen, 1894). The Aueto have rattles made of an egg. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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