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prostrate as before. While he hes prostrate one of the initiators 

 fastens on his back a medicine bag corresponding to the degree he 

 has taken. In the first degree this bag is made of the white skin of a 

 weasel. The initiators then raise the candidate to his feet and with- 

 draw to the eastern end of the lodge, the following song being sung: 



No. 13. Third Initiation Song (Catalogue no. 63) 

 Sung by Be^cigwi^wizans 



VOICK (^1 — 80 



Drum J -_^ 96 



(Drum-rhythm similar to No. 1) 



ma - ha - dwe 



mi - de - wa - yan e bi 



~-m=^-- 



-0=^ 



mi - ma - Aa - dwe 



ni - mi - de - wa - yau 



bi 



:^= 



:i 



^■ 



^1 



mi ma - ha - dwe 



we ni - mi - de - wa - yan 



Bi'mimadweVe There comes a sound 



Nimide^vayan' From my medicine bag 



Analysis. — Beginning on the twelfth and moving freely along the 

 descending intervals of the fourth five-toned scale, this song is purely 

 harmonic in character. It begins on the unaccented 

 portion of the measure and contains few interpolated 

 syllables. 



After this song the person who is being initiated takes 

 his medicine bag and goes toward the four initiators, 

 ''shooting" first the we'daked', who sits down. After 

 encircling the lodge he ''shoots" the next in line, and so 

 on until all are seated, the lodge being encircled after 

 the "shooting" of each man. 



When all are thus seated the person being initiated takes the gifts 

 on his arm and presents the proper articles to the leader, the initia- 



SONG PICTURE 

 NO. 13. 



