To type on a computer keyboard, she must use small sticks attached to her hands.
The dancers create a circle that includes at least two drummers, a palitos (small sticks) player, maraca players, and singers.
The South Asian rastrarang can be played either with small sticks by percussion or by rubbing wetted fingers along the rims the cups do not contain water.
Water gourds—half gourds floated open side down in a pan of water and struck rhythmically with small sticks—are played in western Africa; in Benin their chief use is at funeral rites.
The level of detail was phenomenal: small sticks represented eucalyptus groves - eucalyptus being the equivalent of poplars in France, a cash forestry crop - and there were tiny fridges, food blenders, pick-up trucks and even Volvos.
"They are very shy, very sensitive to disturbance," Dr. Rutz said, so efforts to observe the birds' foraging for larvae and other food with small sticks and leaves could easily affect their behavior.
