﻿NO. 2 SMITH SOX iA.\ i:x ii.( )KATi( ixs, JO-4 119 



The chief was asked whether his people used music in the treatuient 

 of the sick, and he responded with a song for the cure of headaclie. 

 containing the following words: 



I bring sweet-smelling flowers and i>ut tlieni in water, 



1 clip a cloth in the water and pnt it around your iiead, 



I'hen I bring a comb, part your hair smoothly and make it i>retty. 



Everyone comes to see you get better, 



And I tell you that you will ne\or be cold again. 



fio to sleep and dream of many animals, mountain-lio^^ and soa-iions, 



You will talk with them and understand what they say. 



When you wake you will be a doctor, like me. 



It was said that a doctor " received his songs in dreams," and sang 

 when preparing his most difficult remedies. He did not shake a rattle, 

 nor make any commotion when treating a sick person, as is frequentl) 

 done hv the Indians of North America. The chief expressed the 

 ojjinion this would increase the illness of the patient. 



Certain songs were sung after the death of a man, and in the.se 

 songs the man's spirit was directed on its way to a " happy place.*' 

 Such a song was recorded and may be summarized as follows ; in 

 this portion of the song the sick man speaks to his wife. 



The fever returns. I drink the medicine and throw it nn my body. 



The fever grows worse. 1 am going to die. 



My breath grows diflicult. my face is pale. 



The medicine does not help me. I am going' to die. 



Talk to my two children about me. after I am gone. 



I leave the cocoanut farm for my children. 



After I die yuu will go to the cocoanut farm and take tlie cliildrcn with ymi. 



There you will think of me. 



If people go to our cocoanut farm and cut the trees 



^'ou must track them and lind who did it. 



I am leaving the plantain farm. 



There will be plenty of property for tlie children. 



T leave the small fruits, the mangoes, the bananas an<l nther fruits, 



Think of me when you gather them. 



The song then mentions his skill in hunting and hshing. enumerat- 

 ing the results as he had named the fruits on his farms. He tells his 

 wife to marry again in a short time, then dies, and the remainder 

 of the song concerns the directing of his spirit on its way. 



The principal social event of the Tule is a wedding, to which the 

 people come from all the villages. They dance and sing for several 

 days, according to the wealth of the bride's father who provides the 

 entertainment. The writer first obtained a full and detailed account 

 of the wedding customs, and then asked for a wedding song. When 

 this had been recorded she asked for a translation of the words. 



