war-tread

Updated: May 17, 2025

Among Polynesians of to-day the dances still retain the rhythmic beat of the war-tread measure, and many of the motions of the arms are more or less conventionalized imitations of the act of striking with a club, or hurling a spear, and other acts.

Henry Edward Crampton - The Doctrine of Evolution: Its Basis and Its Scope