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she has not classified the various tonal groups to see if they may perchance coincide with songs having different functions. The author offers no study or discussion of composition structure and design, a feature of even primitive music which is coming more and more to be recognized as of quite as great, if not greater, importance as the tonal material or even the rhythmic and metric patterns. I n her comparisons between the musics under discussion in these volumes and those which she has previously studied, she has given a few generalizations, particularly with the idea of contrasting the Indian musics with that of European tradition. There are many points of debatable methodology in the treatment of the music in these books, too numerous to discuss here, but the fact remains that Miss Densmore has made two more additions to her already large contributions of musical notation of American Indian songs, together with masses of data which will be of interest to ethnologists. HELEN H. ROBERTS A Study on Papuan Music. J. KUNST.(Indisch ComitC voor Wetenschappelijke Onderzoekingen. Batavia, Java, V. 97 pp., music, illustrations, map. Weltevreden, D.E.I., 1931.) This monograph is an account of some thirteen little tunes collected on phonograph records by Mr. C. C. F. M. LeRoux on an expedition to the Central Mountains of New Guinea (Nassau Range) in the Netherlands East Indies in 1926, which were transcribed and studied by the author. As he says, the material is too fragmentary from which to draw any very definite conclusions but he thinks from the various types of tunes (quite different) and from published accounts of music in these regions by other authors, that there is fair evidence of musical stratification due to mixtures and superposing of cultures, and that further collections will not only make this point clear, but that lines of diffusion may possibly be mapped. By far the most valuable part of the work consists in a very carefully compiled list of musical instruments, based on Curt Sachs classification, with reference to the cultural strata which he has elaborated, some splendid drawings of instruments, a good bibliography, and an excellent map of New Guinea and adjacent islands on which are superposed in colors appropriate signs for the various instruments at the points where they occur. This last is a most valuable contribution for which all musicologists will thank Dr. Kunst. HELEN H. ROBERTS
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Archaeological Atlas of Michigan. WILBERT B. HINSDALE. (Michigan Handbook Series no. 4,40 pp., 21 figs., 20 maps, $6.00. Univ. of Mich., Ann Arbor, 1931.) Distribution of the Aboriginal Population of Michigan. W. B. HINSDALE. (Occasional