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SCGCJ.771.063
29 Oct 1771:22 (309)
London, July 31. Extract of a letter from a young gentleman
on board his Majesty's Sloop Endeavour, giving some account
of the natives of Otahitee or George's Island.
. . . [description of religious and burial practices, social
customs]
Upon occasions of festivity the women dance in the most
indecent manner, performing a thousand obscene
gesticulations, like the Indonesian dancing girls. The only
instrument of musick to divert them at these times, are
large drums, and flutes made of reeds, in the form of our
common flute, which is played upon the wind of the nose,
instead of the mouth.
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