CHAPTER XVI

Songs the essential element of native dances--Indian imagination and poetry--Music entirely ceremonial--Indian singing--Simple melodies--Words without meaning--Sense of time--Limitations of songs--Instrumental music--Pan-pipes--Flutes and fifes--Trumpets--Jurupari music and ceremonial--Castanets--Rattles--Drums--The _manguare_--Method of fashioning drums--Drum language--Signal and conversation--Small hand-drums 206