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
[433] Heckewelder, _Hist. of the Indian Nations_, p. 209; Schoolcraft,
_Information_ ii. p. 59 (N.A. Indians in general); v. pp. 526, 684
(Chippewas and Comanches); Morgan, _Iroquois_, pp. 268, 339; Burton,
_City of the Saints_, p. 177 (Prairie Indians); Casalis, _The Basutos_,
pp. 334, 335; Czervinski, _Geschichte des Tanzes_, pp. 251, 252
(Hungary).
[434] Joest, _Weltfahrten_, ii. pp. 160, 161. On a similar institution
among the Negroes see Mantegazza, _Physiologie des Hasses_, p. 318.
[435] Grey, _Journals_, ii. p. 303; cf. also Calvert, _Western
Australia_, p. 32; Salvado, _Voyage_, p. 182.
[436] Sproat, _Scenes and Studies_, p. 190.
[437] Cf. especially the quotations from Dupuis in Spencer, _Descr.
Soc._ Division I. Nr. 4, p. 47 (Ashantis); Ellis, _Pol. Res._ i. p. 287
(Tahiti); Cook, (1st) _Voyage_, p. 344 (New Zealand).
[438] Dobrizhoffer, _The Abipones_, ii. pp. 366, 367, 422-424, 427;
Thomson, _New Zealand_, i. pp. 126, 169.
[439] Dobrizhoffer, _l.c._ pages adduced above; Steinen, _Durch
Central-Brazilien_, p. 175, cf. also p. 165.
[440] Cf. Dobrizhoffer, _l.c._ ii. pp. 376, 385 _sq._
[441] Cf. Ellis, _Pol. Res._ i. p. 286 (Tahiti); Spencer, _Descr. Soc._
Division I. Nr. 3, p. 15 (Fiji); Thomson, _New Zealand_, i. p. 128;
Pritchard, _Pol. Rem._ p. 56; Wood, _Nat. Hist. of Man_, ii. pp. 58,
59, 280, 356 (Australia, Fiji, Samoa).
How great a part of the boastful expressions of contempt for the enemy
plays in the warfare of the American tribes can be seen from Heriot,
_Travels_, p. 449 (Iroquois). Cf. also Eyre, _Expeditions into Central
Australia_, ii. p. 224; Schweinfurth, _Im Herzen von Afrika_, ii. p. 25
(Niam Niam); Shooter, _The Kafirs_, pp. 197-199; Wood, _Nat. Hist. of
Man_, i. p. 581 (Cammas).
[442] Wood, _Nat. Hist. of Man_, i. p. 581. A typical and instructive
example of undangerous warfare on the Marshall Islands is described by
Finsch in _Ethnologische Erfahrungen_, p. 392.
[443] Bidwill, _Rambles in New Zealand_, p. 81; cf. Cook, (3rd)
_Voyage_, pp. 161, 162.
[444] (Maning), _Old New Zealand_, p. 49; Polack, _New Zealanders_, i.
p. 88; ii. pp, 166, 167.
[445] Polack, _l.c._ i. p. 28.
[446] Richardson, _Arctic Expedition_, i. p. 356; Bancroft, _Native
Races_, i. p. 68.
[447] Angas, _Savage Life_, ii. pp. 149, 150; Wood, _Nat. Hist. of
Man_, ii. pp. 161, 162.
[448] Macpherson, _Memorials of Service in India_, p. 79.
[449] Cf. Grosse, _Anfänge der Kunst_, pp. 58-60.
[450] Wuttke, _Geschichte der Schrift_, p. 74, quoting Silius Italicus,
Aelianus, and Valerius Maximus. Further quotations adduced in Farrer,
_Military Manners and Customs_, pp. 222-224. Cf. also Letourneau, _La
guerre_, p. 153.
[451] Cf. the remarks of Wood in _Nat. Hist. of Man_, ii. p. 599.
[452] Clavigero, _The History of Mexico_, i. p. 371.
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