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SWEET MUSIC CHARMS INTERVALS OF LEISURE IN PANAMÁ
| Music appeals strongly to the West Indian negroes, many of whom are employed by the industrial company developing the banana fields of Boca del Toro, Panamá. This pleasant-faced lad, a member of the crew of a fruit boat, is one of them, and he can pluck very charming music from the strings of his majorana, a home-made Panamanian variant of the Spanish guitar |
INDIAN BUCKS DRESSED FOR THE DANCE IN DARIEN
| Gaiety does not enter largely into the life of the Indians of Panamá, but at feasts and dances they are sufficiently spectacular. Daubed with paint, crowned with headbands, or with large crowns of painted wood, and wearing yards of gaudy beads draped about shoulders and waist, they dance to an accompaniment of throbbing drums and shrill reed flutes, until compelled to drop by exhaustion |