ABSTRACT
The most pressing difficulty is what constitutes an adequate sample of the music of a group of people. If a point were reached at which nothing but duplicates of songs already obtained were recorded, it seems logical to suppose that the repertoire of War Dance songs is becoming exhausted. The Marriage Song just mentioned is, to the best of our knowledge, a single song sung on varied occasions. The Death Song seems clearly to have been of European origin, and therefore it can be excluded from consideration. The Flageolet songs probably represent only a fraction of what was present in the past but a reasonable sample of what was available in 1950, when almost no one played the instrument. Lullabies are very few in number and, indeed, so infrequent as to constitute a doubtful entity as a category.
