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two women and two men face to face. Remaining songs the following 

 form: 



A — women backward, men forward as in Duck Dance. 



B — A-B — same continued. 



A — men and women change places, leading couple stepping aside, 

 walking step. 



B — stomping, this time men backward, women forward. 



Next song recrossing into place during recapitulation. 



Robin Dance (djowiyaik? 6enq'): 



Songs. — Two song- dance leaders with horn rattles. No specified 

 order or number of six songs recorded). Same songs in different order 

 represented in two versions by same singers, 1933 and 1941. Well- 

 defined archaic triad scales and repetitious themes with buoyant 

 rhythms. Special form for dance. 



Dance. — x (call), alternately accented rattle beat. 



Song — men and women, segregated as in rituals, facing center, 

 stomp sideward right, as in Medicine Men's Rite, Buffalo, and 

 B of ga'ddso't. 

 X — with three hops, all face about. 

 Song — facing outside of circle, all stomp to left, as in Buffalo 



Dance. 

 X — all face about to center of circle. 

 Step variations permissible, two-steps, hops, pivots. All songs 

 choreographed with combinations used by Fannie Stevens, some set, 

 some improvised. 



General remarks. — Bird dances possible hunting dances for mating 

 and propagation (hence coupling), for capture as in Duck Dance. 

 (See p. 69.) 



SOCIAL DANCES^ — ^FiSH TYPE, gfdzg'enQ' ka-' 



Function. — Sociability.^^ 



Occasions. — Same as other social dances. 

 Fish Dance (gfdzc^'eng) : 



Songs. — Two kinds, old and new, the latter faster and bolder.^^ 

 Available versions all of old type, each repertoire different. 1933 

 songs by Ed Curry and Lyn Dowdy: first one only resembles one of 

 1945 series by Chauncey J. John and Albert Jones. No set number; 

 six recorded in 1945. All characterized by flexible rhythms both in 

 instruments and melody. Usually six singers, one with drum, the 



'2 At Soursprings, Fish Dance is frequently included in Midwinter medicine rite renewals. 



" See Kurath, 1951, p. 134, for comparison of old and new types of the Women's and Fish Dances. 



