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Show FIJI Islanders' Sugar Cane Dance. A vory curious and exceedingly clever dance may be witnessed in FIJI, railed by the natives "tho sugar cane in ok o" or sugar cane dance. It represents repre-sents tho growth of tho sugar cano. In the first figure tho dancers squat low on tho ground, shako tbalr heads, shut their oyes and murmur slowly and softly an unintelligible soutenco. Gradually they all Btand up together, growing taller nnd taller, and as thoy "grow" thoy wavo their arms and tremblo nil over from aukle to head, like the mil, tassellod cano waving in Mie wind, and still they keep pn chanting chant-ing louder and louder. Tho last figure represents a series of combatB meant to symbolize tho ex. actions of the chlers, who compol tho "knlsl," willing or unwilling, to come and out their rjrgps. |