 | Indians of North America - 1910 - 104 pages
...marvellous fervency and labor of body, that he will even sweat to a foam. The other part is their cantico, performed by round dances, sometimes words, sometimes songs, then shouts; two being in the middle who begin, and by singing and drumming on a board, direct the chorus. Their postures in the dance are... | |
 | Charles Franklin Warwick - Pennsylvania - 1913 - 454 pages
...fervency, and labour of body, that he will, even, sweat to a foam. The other part is their cantico, performed by round dances, sometimes words, sometimes...; and, by singing and drumming on a board, direct a chorus. Their postures, in the dance, are very antick and differing, but all keep measure. This is... | |
 | William Nelson, Charles Anthony Shriner - Paterson (N.J.) - 1920 - 442 pages
...the life — or death — of the Indian was celebrated with dance and song. "The Cantico," says Penn, "is performed by round Dances, sometimes Words, sometimes...earnestness and labour, but great appearance of Joy." When a young Indian warrior was being butchered by inches by the Dutch soldiers in Fort Amsterdam,... | |
 | Indians - 1921 - 284 pages
...Cantico. Their sacrifice is their first fruits. . . . The other part ot their worship is by Cantico, performed by round dances, sometimes words, sometimes...singing and drumming on a board direct the chorus. . . . They are said to lay their altar on twelve stones." In this brief account should be noted the... | |
 | Mark Raymond Harrington - History - 1921 - 282 pages
...Cantico. Their sacrifice is their first fruits. . . . The other part ot their worship is by Cantico, performed by round dances, sometimes words, sometimes...singing and drumming on a board direct the chorus. . . . They are said to iay their altar on twelve stones." In this brief account should be noted the... | |
 | Thomas John Chew Williams, Folger McKinsey - Frederick County (Md.) - 1967 - 1870 pages
...performed by round dances, sometimes words, sometimes songs, then shonts ; two being in the middle tent begin, and by singing and drumming on a board, direct the chorus. Their postures in the dance are very antique and differing, hut they all keep measure. Thil is done with equal earnestness and labor but... | |
 | William Penn - History - 1970 - 100 pages
...Body, that he will even sweat to a foam. The other part is their Cantico, performed by round-Dances, sometimes Words, sometimes Songs, then Shouts, two...great appearance of Joy. In the Fall, when the Corn cometh in, they begin to feast one another; there have been two great Festivals already2, 1 In ye fall... | |
 | Jean R. Soderlund - History - 1983 - 436 pages
...body that he will even sweat to a foam. The other part is their cantico, performed by round-dances, sometimes words, sometimes songs, then shouts, two...direct the chorus. Their postures in the dance are very antic19 and differing, but all keep measure. This is done with equal earnestness and labor, but great... | |
 | Urs Bitterli, Ritchie Robertson - History - 1989 - 228 pages
...roundly condemned as obscene, are judged with remarkable mildness in Penn's Account of the Lenni Lenape: 'Their Postures in the Dance are very Antick and differing,...equal Earnestness and Labour, but great appearance of Joy.'31 Doubtless it was this tolerance that, along with other factors such as the absence of a firm... | |
 | David Turley - Religion - 1998 - 480 pages
...marvellous fervency and labour of body, that he will even sweat to a foam. The other part is their cantico, performed by round dances, sometimes words, sometimes...direct the chorus. Their postures in the dance are very antic and differing, but all keep measure. This is done with equal earnestness and labour, but great... | |
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... of body, that he will even sweat to a foam. The other part is their cantico, performed by round dances, sometimes words, sometimes songs, then shouts; two being in the middle that begin; and, by singing and drumming on a board, direct the chorus.... 
