roTH] GAMES, SPORTS, AND AMUSEMENTS 473 
serves to beat time. The following is the song with which the 
Warrau accompany their Aruhoho dance: 
Hiatu moku-moku nevikarié. Undergrowth small cut-down. 
Domu-sanuka siborori. Sparrows-little siborori. 
Kohé6ko nehurehure buakata. Ears carefully intently; 7@. e., listen 
attentively. 
Nevikarié ! Cut-down (the bushes, ete.). 
Aru-sanuka karuriani ho-ho-ho-ho, ete. Cassava-little we-dance ho-ho-ho-ho, 
ete. 
Kauri waka nakaitehi oriwakaiyani. Sporting, etc., for-to-day we rejoice. 
Aru-sanuka karuriani. Cassava-little we-dance. 
Hake tametakuri inarerate. To-morrow this-time quiet. 
Wihi witu onate. Species-of-Pigeon then cry. 
“Cut down the undergrowth (so as to make a good field). There is the little 
sparrow. the siborori. Listen carefully, (so as to sing just as nicely as he 
does). Cut away the bushes. We are dancing, sporting, ete., with only a 
little cassava. Sing ho-ho-ho-ho, etc. How glad we are that the sport was 
fixed for to-day. We are sporting with only a little cassava. By this time 
to-morrow everything will be quiet. The pigeon alone will then be making © 
a noise.” 
586. The humming-bird dance, that of the bird which is so closely 
associated in Indian folklore with the medicine man (WER, v1, sec. 
350), would seem to be introductory to a series of other dances; 
e. g., parishara, and performances devoted to some special circum- 
stance or occasion, the significance of which has been lost. Further 
inquiry leads to the belief that the observances, accouterments, etc., 
of one particular series have become merged into those of another, 
with the result that the whole set of performances is now more or 
less curtailed. Again, as might have been expected, certain items 
of a series have received greater and perhaps correspondingly un- 
necessary importance at the hands of travelers than have others. It 
is only since the above was written, and the results of certain of 
Penard’s researches made known to me, that some definite order 
and arrangement has been recognized in connection with the series 
of dances, variously performed, known collectively as the humming- 
bird (owing to its being the preliminary opening one of the several 
to follow) and practiced by many of the tribes, both of Carib and 
Arawak stock. The bird in question is called tukusi (Surinam 
Carib), tukui (Makusi), bimitti (Arawak), ete.,and hence the name 
of the performance will vary with the tribe and locality. It was 
danced at the larger festivities at those times of the year when the 
cassava was ripe and plentiful enough to insure sufficient liquor, and 
when whole villages would invite one another for a general or rather 
communal drinking bout, pure and simple. It had apparently noth- 
ing to do with any of the special ceremonial dances held at a birth, 
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