. Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. I. Fragments of rims of vessels, Monasukapanough. Natural. 2. Casts of impressions on fragments of pottery, size. (U. S. Nat. Mus. Cat. No. 350154) NO. 12 MONACAN TOWNS IN VIRGINIA BUSHNELL 3I SO they all prepared for it, and made a great ring; the musicianbeing come, he sat himself in the middle of the ring; all the instrumenthe had was a piece of board and two small sticks; the board he setupon his lap, and began to sing a doleful tune, and by striking on theboard with his sticks, he accompanied his voice; he made severalantic
. Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. I. Fragments of rims of vessels, Monasukapanough. Natural. 2. Casts of impressions on fragments of pottery, size. (U. S. Nat. Mus. Cat. No. 350154) NO. 12 MONACAN TOWNS IN VIRGINIA BUSHNELL 3I SO they all prepared for it, and made a great ring; the musicianbeing come, he sat himself in the middle of the ring; all the instrumenthe had was a piece of board and two small sticks; the board he setupon his lap, and began to sing a doleful tune, and by striking on theboard with his sticks, he accompanied his voice; he made severalantic motions, and sometimes shrieked hideously, which was answeredby the boys. As the men sung, so the boys danced all round, endeav-oring who could outdo the other in antic motions and hideous cries,the movements answering in some way to the time of the that I could remark by their actions was, that they were repre-senting how they attacked their enemies, and relating one to theother how many of the other Indians they had killed, and how theydid it making all the motions in this dance as
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