The origins of art; a psychological & sociological inquiryHirn, Y. (Yrjö)
Philosophy
The origins of art; a psychological & sociological inquiry
Hirn, Y. (Yrjö)
Aesthetics; Art -- Philosophy; Art, Primitive
[362] Selenka, _Sonnige Welten_, pp. 349-352; Brenner, _Besuch bei den
Kannibalen_, pp. 328 _sq._ (Bataks); Forbes, _Wanderings_, p. 149;
Marsden, _Sumatra_, pp. 197, 198, 267; Rienzi, _Océanie_, i. pp. 134,
135, all on poetry from Sumatra; Blumentritt, _Filippinen_, p. 17;
Jagor, _Filippinen_, p. 236 (Bisayas); Martin, _Mollukken_, pp. 292,
293; Hickson, _Celebes_, pp. 272-274, 301-304.
[363] Curr, _Australian Race_, iii. pp. 168, 169.
[364] Cf. on the erotic poetry in Tahiti, Cook, (3rd) _Voyage_, ii. p.
149; on Maori erotic poetry, Dieffenbach, _New Zealand_, ii. p. 57.
[365] Morgan, _Iroquois_, pp. 260, 284-287; Baker, _Musik der
Nordamerikanischen Wilden_, p. 56.
[366] Cf. Brinton, _Essays_, pp. 293-297; Markham, _Ollanta_, pp. 1, 2.
[367] Hyades, _Mission Scientifique_, vii. p. 377; cf. p. 239.
[368] Bailey, _Trans. Ethnol. Soc._ N. S. ii. p. 301; Davy, _Ceylon_,
p. 118; Deschamps, _Au pays des Veddas_, pp. 386-389; Emerson Tennent,
_Ceylon_, ii. p. 450; Hoffmeister, _Travels_, p. 164; Sarasin,
_Ergebnisse_, iii. pp. 512-518, 546; Schmidt, _Ceylon_, pp. 73, 74; De
Zoysa, _Journ. Ceylon Br. R. A. S._ 1881, p. 114,—all on Vedda dancing.
Sarasin, _l.c._ pp. 510, 519-523; Bailey, _l.c._ p. 289; Deschamps,
_l.c._ pp. 386 _sq._; Nevill in _The Taprobanian_, ii. pp. 121-127; De
Zoysa, _l.c._ pp. 98-115,—all on Vedda poetry.
[369] See Fritsch, _Eingeborenen Süd-Afrikas_, pp. 425, 426; Holub,
_Süd-Afrika_, ii. pp. 465, 469, 470; and the interesting communication
in _The Academy_, 1878, p. 463.
[370] Roth, W. E., _N. W. C. Queensland Aborigines_, pp. 119, 120,
131; Spencer and Gillen, _Native Tribes_, passim (On the elaborate
decorations and paraphernalia used in the dramatic rites of
initiation); Hill and Thornton, _Aborigines of New South Wales_, pp. 7,
8; Lang, _Australia_, pp. 28, 29.
[371] Cf. Darwin, _The Descent of Man_, ii. pp. 400, 401, 418.
[372] Scott, “Sex and Art,” in _American Journal of Psychology_, vii.,
especially p. 183.
[373] Cf. Büchner, _Liebe und Liebes-Leben_, p. 53.
[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.
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