Note 376 — Chapter XI · DANCING AS A MOURNING AND BURIAL RITE

J. M. Brown, Maori and Polynesian, p. 203. “Funeral dances and death-bed dances are a world-wide custom. We hear of them in Patagonia, in Abyssinia, in North America, in the East Indian isles and in the Highlands of Scotland; we read about them in ancient Egypt, and we can see them to-day in Spain, in Ireland, and in the centre of France,” Lilly Grove, op. cit. p. 4.