DExsMORB] CHIPPEWA MUSIC 17 



This illustration shows that the Mide/ writing can be used to 

 express complicated ideas. 



The example of song writing here given (fig. 2) shows a delineation 

 of the objects mentioned in the song. 



The words of the song are: 



Wase' Light 



Nita^binos Around you 



O'gima Chief 



I'kwe Woman (i)rincess) 



This picture was drawn by the same woman as the preceding. 

 She stated that the horizontal line represents the edge of the wig- 

 wam, along which are arranged various articles of value indicated 

 by the dots. At each end are torches, the light of which falls 



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Fig. 2. Mide' song writing. 



on the gathered wealth, causing many of the articles to glitter. These 

 articles belong to a woman standing with upraised hands and wear- 

 ing a pearl necklace with a locket. 



In singing this song the woman pointed to one portion of the pic- 

 ture after another, tapping the birch bark lightly as she sang and 

 traversing the row of dots, the horizontal line, the outline of the 

 necklace, and the torches, then beginning again at the row of dots. 



The woman who sang this song stated further that "it is a medi- 

 cine song" and that she could, if desired, furnish some of the medicine 

 for use with the song. "The medicine was in the form of a powder 

 and would be worn in a medicine bag." 



No phonograph was available at the time, but the song was noted. 

 It begins on a high tone, descending "wdth frequent intervals of the 

 12692°— Bull. 45—10 2 



