es.

[92] See _Evolution in Art_ (1895), p. 264; and _Geographical Journal_,
Vol. 16, p. 433.

[93] I would point out, however, that the Inawae clan is part of,
and is probably largely representative of, the original Inawae
_ngopu_ group of the great Biofa tribe of Mekeo, and that this
Inawae group is rather widely scattered over Mekeo (see Seligmann's
_Melanesians of British New Guinea_, p. 321 and pp. 369 to 372);
so that the information obtained is probably not really of a merely
local character.

[94] Sir W. Macgregor, in describing (_Ann. Rep._, June, 1890,
p. 47) the movements and actions of the Kiwai (Fly river mouth)
natives prior to a canoe attack by them upon him, says: "The canoes
darted hither and thither, as if performing a circus dance or a
Highland reel, and all these movements were accompanied by the chant
of a paean that sounded as if composed to imitate the cooing--soft,
plaintive, and melodious--of the pigeons of their native forests";
and he refers to the performance as a "canoe choral dance." It was,
of course, not a dance in the sense in which I am dealing with the
subject here; but the apparently imitative character of the singing is
perhaps worth noticing in connection with this dancing question. See
also the description (_Country Life_, March 4, 1911) by Mr. Walter
Goodfellow, the leader of the recent expedition into Dutch New Guinea,
of the dancing and accompanying singing of the Mimika natives whom
he met there, and his suggestion that the final calls of these songs
were derived from that of the greater paradise bird. Mr. Goodfellow
has since told me with reference to these Mimika songs that he was
forcibly struck by the resemblance of the termination of _most_
of the songs to the common cry of the greater bird of paradise, and
said: "They finished with the same abrupt note, repeated three times
(like the birds)." Dr. Haddon has been good enough to lend me the
manuscript of his notes on the dances performed in the islands of
Torres Straits, which will probably have appeared in Vol. IV. of the
_Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits_
before this book is published. Here again I find interesting records
of imitative dancing. One dance imitates the swimming movements of
the large lizard (Varanus), another is an imitation of the movements
of a crab, another imitates those of a pigeon, and another those of
a pelican. At a dance which I witnessed in the Roro village