Celebrate
Indians dance to celebrate acts, deeds and facts regarding life and customs. They dance while preparing for war; when they return from it;celebrating a‘cacique’ (chief), crops, ripening of fruits, a good haul of fish, to mark the puberty of adolescents or honour the dead in funeral rituals; to keep away diseases, epidemics and other scourges.
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