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with archeological data now available from other sections of the 
Southwest. 
Following his studies at Paragonah, Mr. Judd proceeded to Fill- 
more, Willard County, for the purpose of investigating certain 
mounds reported from that neighborhood. These and similar eleva- 
tions near the villages of Meadow, Deseret, and Hinckley, were all 
superficially identified as of the same type and representing the 
same degree of culture as those previously described near Beaver 
City, Paragonah, and other settlements. 
STUDY OF INDIAN MUSIC 
During the summer of 1916 Miss Frances Densmore continued the 
study of Indian music, making phonographic records of Indian 
songs on the reservations. For this purpose she revisited the Uintah 
and Ouray reservation in northeastern Utah, to complete the study 
of Ute music commenced in 1914. The work at that time was 
limited to the Uintah and White River divisions of the tribe, but 
during the last season it was extended to the Uncompahgre. On 
comparing the two sets of songs it was found that those recorded 
by the Uncompahgre differ slightly in structure from those recorded 
by the Uintah and White River Ute. 
The principal subjects of investigation among the Ute were the 
songs used in the treatment of the sick, the war songs, and those 
of tribal dances. Among the most valuable songs are those of a 
certain medicine-man who represented a class that treat the sick 
without the use of material means and who stated that he received 
his songs supernaturally and could not transfer them to another. 
Songs were also recorded by a woman who was actively engaged in 
treating the sick and who belonged to the class of those who use 
herb-medicines. Her power was believed to be supernaturally given, 
its source being an eagle. Songs of this class of “ doctors’’ are 
usually received in a supernatural manner but may be bought and 
sold, together with the herbs which, it is believed, would be ineffective 
without the singing of the songs. 
The Bear dance is the most distinctive dance of the Ute, and many 
songs of this dance were recorded. The Ironline dance and the 
Double dance are among the more or less unusual dances studied. 
These dances have long since passed into disuse. 
A peculiar war custom of the Ute is that of “washing the 
wounded.” It was said that “when a war party returned with a 
wounded man they placed him in the center of the circle as they 
