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THE VILLAGE AND VILLAGE LIFE 43 indicate their rhythm. In some instances the words also have been preserved, but only very rarely and fragmentarily have they been translated, and evenwhere the English equivalents have been given the sense of the song is still very obscure. It is uncertain, too, whether these songs are secular, or whether they are only sung as an accompaniment to the dances performed on ceremonial occasions} v 4 1 F16. 5. A humming top and 2. silent top used as toys in Seniang. 27.2208; 27.2209. Games Games as well as music help to pass the time when it hangs heavy, and to break the monotony of a life devoted primarily to the production of wealth and the rearing of offspring. These games have also a certain educative value, for many of them are contests of physical skill, as, for instance, boxing, called 1 For an account of the sacred musical instruments such as the ggngsand the curious oocl c l'nd k ' ' ' Chaps‘ XII‘; angnxglfr. I1;_lIeW‘nv in Seniang as the lemes nuuzngg/mil/see below,
