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Examples
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Both dances are for the sun and the moon -- rutuburi, in order to call them down; yumari, to despatch them.
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Such fishing may last for two days and nights, and is finished by dancing yumari and drinking maguey wine.
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But it is characteristic of the yumari songs that they generally consist only of an unintelligible jargon, or, rather, of a mere succession of vocables, which the dancers murmur.
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Every one of them dances yumari alone in front of his house for two hours to insure success on the hunt; and when putting corn to sprout for the making of tesvino the owner of the house dances for a while, that the corn may sprout well.
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I was present at feasts in which four of these dances were performed, and the order in which they followed each other was: Rutuburi, yumari, valixiwami, cuvali.
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According to one version of the tradition, both yumari and rutuburi were once men who taught the Tarahumares to dance and sing.
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The tones marked with the accent > in each of the following yumari songs are grunts.
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To my knowledge there are six different dances, but of these I will describe only two, the rutuburi and the yumari, as these are the most important and the two almost exclusively used in the central part of the country.
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In yumari, all sing and dance, and very frequently all the performers are drunk, while during the former dance absolute decorum is observed.
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Some sing only at rutuburi or yumari dances, others only at hikuli-feasts.
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