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(d) Curing ritual by the following participants (part IV): 

 Messenger M 



► Patient 



► Sponsor 

 Helper ^ 



Crossover during first rendering of each song ; return to original 

 places during second rendering. 



(e) (part V) Round dance in three phases: 



i. In place, seated, 11 songs, with rising during twelfth, 

 ii. Standing, 5 songs. 



iii. Dancing by the assembly, songs 18-47; by the sponsor 

 and a masked figure, songs 48-55, ashes strewn; by the 

 assembly, songs 56-62; in place, standing, final songs 63-64. 

 Step — facing center of circle, a sideward stamping shuft'le and 

 raising of alternate knees, sometimes a quick two-step or two suc- 

 cessive stamps with one foot. 

 Actions: 



41: rattles stood on end of handle several feet above floor. 



42: rattles planted in center of dance lodge. 



52-54: masker and sponsor face to face Hke two people kissing, 



ashes strewn by the masker. 

 63: rattles held against head like horns during butting mime. 

 Remarks. — Textual references to mystic animals and magical 

 actions. Ordinary clothes except for black and white mask. Rela- 

 tion to even more esoteric Little Water Medicine Society.* 



Buffalo Society Dance Songs (degiya' go?6enQ'): 



Function. — Cure of cramps in the shoulders, or fulfillment of dreams 

 about the buffalo. 



Occasions. — Midwinter medicine rite celebrations, and private 

 ceremonies. 



Songs. — One male singer with water drum, seated on central bench, 

 with patient next to him. 



(a) Introductory tobacco invocation chant, one song. 



(6) A short series of dance songs, similar in two versions, all 

 A A B A B. 1933 recording by Sherman Redeye, five songs, each 

 with a single theme repeated in various levels, and each with a prefer- 

 ence for direct or hidden fourths. 1941 recording by Chauncey 

 Johnny John, eight songs mostly the same as Redeye's, but excluding 

 the 1933 final song with the "magic word" (see texts) and including 

 a final song with syncopations and terminal antiphony. 



Dance. — (a) Tobacco invocation and treatment of the patient. 



« See Fenton, 1941 a, p. 421; field notes. 



