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Usually such music was related to once-a-year festivals, once the yr's crop was harvested and several times had been set aside for celebration. As late as 1861, a traveler in North Carolina saw dancers wearing costumes that integrated horned headdresses and cow tails and heard music supplied by a sheepskin-lined "gumbo box", evidently a body drum;