MEXICAN DANCES AND MUSIC — GENIN. 677 



Mexican Kepublic. To give an exact idea of them, as well as to 

 represent the reconstitutions of the ancient dances, it would be neces- 

 sary not only to take numerous motion pictures, but also to be sup- 

 plied with a phonographic apparatus, to record the songs and the 

 musical rhythms. This evidently requires time and patience but it 

 has been tried elsewhere. 



My friend, Louis Ganne, the author of "Pere la Victoire " and of 

 " La Tzarine," has done it or at least was planning to do it several 

 years ago for certain of the French colonies. It would be extremely 

 interesting for a country so rich from an ethnographical and archeo- 

 logical point of view as Mexico, and I hope that this study may en- 

 courage some one to try it, 



