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(6) Round dance by — 



i. The ritual conductor, sponsor, and society members, 

 ii. The community, men in the lead, women in the rear. 



Step — first half of each song (A A B), facing center of circle, a 

 right sideward stamping shuffle; second half of each song (A B), 

 facing outside of circle, a left sideward stamping shuffle. 



Action — butting and bellowing by male members. 



Remarks. — Mimetic illusion not heightened by costumes, such as 

 skins or horns, and according to Johnny John not in the past either. 



Treatment of patient — traditionally by administering a piece of 

 salt clay. (See pages 65-66 for mimetic aspects.) 



Bear Society Dance Songs (nyagwai'i' oeno?): 



Function. — Cure of neurotic spasms, or fulfillment of dreams of 

 the bear. 



Occasions. — Midwinter medicine rites and private ceremonies. 

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

 with patient next to him. 



(a) Introductory tobacco chant, two songs. 



(6) Nine dance songs, similar in tonality to Buffalo songs, but with 

 less variation in level and more variation by rhythmic modification, 

 in three groups: 



i. Three songs with similar themes and different treatment, 

 variously developed by transposition or contraction (see 

 "Musical Analysis"). 

 ii. Four songs, each a variation on the same themes with a triad 



skeleton, 

 iii. Two songs with terminal antiphony between the singer and 

 dance leaders, one (song 10) constructed on a skeleton ot 

 a hidden fourth, the other (song 11) constructed on a triad. 

 Concluding puffing and blowing by male participants. 

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

 (6) Round Dance, similar in arrangement to Buffalo Dance. 

 Step — continuous forward stomp by all performers. 

 Action — waddling and clomping in imitation of the bear and dur- 

 ing song 9 communion with bear food, huckleberry or blackberry 

 juice in a pail. 



Remarks. — Mimetic illusion not heightened by costume. 

 Treatment of patient — spraying with berry juice, communal 

 puffing of smoke from a pipe. (See pages 66-67.) 



women's medicine societies 

 Dark Dance (deyodasodaigo) : 



Function. — Cure of general debility with aid of medicine in a charm 

 bundle. 



