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Show i9oo] INDIAN RELIGION 261 and those which accompany gambling and the incantations of shamans are the main forms besides the religious chants/ Musical instruments are limited to drums of various sorts, whistles, and rattles. It is evident from the preceding survey of Indian Sociology, religion, and art that these three aspects* • of their life are always interwoven. It is impossible to interpret the expressions of any one of them except in the light of the others. While this close association of divergent classes of ideas is characteristic of lower levels of culture in all parts of the world, it comes out with exceptional clearness in North America, and is the most striking characteristic of Indian psychology. |