[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. [355] Marsden, _Sumatra_, p. 298 (Lampong Country); Brenner, _Besuch bei den Kannibalen_, p. 331 (Sumatra); Joest, _Weltfahrten_, ii. pp. 159, 160 (Seram); Blumentritt, _Filippinen_, p. 17 (Tagals), p. 41 (Catalangaus). [356] Dalton, _Ethnology of Bengal_, pp. 196-198 (Hos and Mundaris); Lewin, _Wild Races_, pp. 123-125 (Khyoungtha Love Songs), p. 188 (Chukma Songs); Müller, _l.c._ p. 471 (Kolh Dances). [357] Dalton, _l.c._ pp. 142-144 (Bhuiyas). [358] _Ibid._ pp. 135, 149, 300. [359] _Ibid._ p. 196. [360] Lewin, _Wild Races_, pp. 123-125. [361] _Ibid._ p. 188.