no Field Museum of Natural History — Anth., Vol. XII. 



The player stands in front of the line and begins to beat the instruments 

 with a padded stick. Oftentimes he is accompanied by a man who 

 strikes a wooden drum with the palm of one hand and a stick held in 

 the other. The music grows faster, emphasizing certain beats, until 

 it becomes a compelling rhythm that starts the feet of the onlookers, 

 and suddenly a man or woman begins to dance. At first she keeps 

 time to the music by raising on her toes and heels, bending the knees 

 and twisting the body from side to side, but soon she becomes more 

 animated, the feet are raised high above the floor and brought down 

 with a sort of shuffle which reminds one of the sound made by the feet 

 of a clog dancer. Still swaying her body, she begins to circle, contra- 

 clockwise, around the gongs, and soon she is joined by others until 

 all the dancing space is filled. The scene is most picturesque, for these 

 dances usually occur at night, in rooms illuminated only by the flickering 

 light of torches. The rich clothing of the participants loses nothing 

 of its beauty in this dim light, while the bells and rattles with which 

 each dancer surrounds arms, legs and ankles, add to the din and weirdness 

 of the occasion. Before the dance has progressed far the musicians 

 begin to keep time with their feet and frequently dance away from 

 their instruments, circle, and then return to continue the music. 



With slight variation, this is the dance used on all occasions. At 

 certain ceremonies small gongs, or the bolang bolang, 1 replace the agongs, 

 and at times also a single dancer will accompany himself on the kodlon - 

 a long wooden guitar with rattan strings (Plate XXXb). 



FIG. 33. 



taw-Gau or bamboo Guitar. 



In this description we have named a large share of the musical 

 instruments used by the Bagobo. The women frequently play on a 

 sort of guitar made of a section of bamboo from the outside of which 

 narrow strings are cut. These are raised and made taut with small 

 wooden bridges and are then picked with a stick or the fingers (Fig. 33). 

 Bamboo Jew's-harps and mouth flutes are played by the men, but the 



1 An instrument made by placing a small board on a rice mortar, 

 or beaten with short sticks, or with the wooden pestles. 



This is pounded 



