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These untutored savages could hardly have conjured up a more typical tone-picture of the "shadowy valley" than the song heard on this record. The peculiarly weird character is due in large part to the swelling out and dying away of the tones on certain syllables. Sang-Sangit Record C. Sung during the evening following a funeral. In this record we hear but one voice a man's.
That night the men spend about an hour in the house of mourning, singing sang-sangit, a song in which they praise the dead man, encourage the widow, and bespeak the welfare of the family. The wailers still remain in the dwelling to protect the widow, and a male relative is detailed to see that the fire at the foot of the ladder is kept burning brightly.
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