Show Freaks Breaks and Oddities In Science News r HA A standing long-standing mystery regarding the picturesque picturesque U esque Seminole Indians of the Everglades has at last been fathomed The mystery is why the Seminoles should be so hopelessly unmusical a tribe The solution discovered by Miss Frances D Densmore collaborator for the Bureau of American Ethnology is that the Seminoles are not hopelessly unmusical at all They have merely kept their music very much to themselves and so it remained unheard and unheard of of among their closest white neighbors The ethnologist stated that she has just finished recording songs from one of the head singers of this un musical tribe And the singer had not exhausted his supply He sang one after another for three days while the ethnologist made her records Never before has Miss Densmore found an Indian who knew so many Far from being monotonous yi kl singing the Seminole songs are good music with pleasing melodies and showing showing showing show show- ing wide variety she discovered |