Note 203 — Chapter XII · ART AND INFORMATION
Reading edition
For songs describing the incidents in a travel see Batchelor, The Ainu, pp. 123, 124; Chamisso, in Kotzebue’s Reisen, iii. p. 67 (Radack); Woods, Native Tribes, pp. 38, 39 (Taplin, “The Narrinyeri”); Grey, Journals, ii. p. 253; Polack, New Zealanders, ii. pp. 167, 168. On current events as subjects of primitive poetry cf. Bonwick, Tasmanians, p. 29; Kingsley, Travels, p. 66, (Bubis); Curr, Australian Race, iii. p. 169 (Mathew, Mary River Natives); Metz, Neilgherry Hills, p. 30 (Todas); Ahlqvist, Acta Soc. Scient. Fenn. xiv. (“Wogulen und Ostjaken”); Day, Proceedings of the As. Soc. 1870, p. 157 (Observ. on the Andamanese); Ehrenreich in Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, xix. p. 32 (Botokudos); Erman, Travels in Siberia, ii. pp. 42, 43 (Ostyak songs and pantomimes).