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Kemembering the sound of the lesser drum in the house of E'niwub'e, 

 one did not wisli to return and hear the chief drum. Far on the road 

 through the pine forest the throb of the drum was heard, and one 

 knew that in E'niwub'e's lamplight the dark figures were dancing as 

 the Indians danced before ever a white man came to their shores. 



Ceremony of Divorce 



A Ceremony of Divorce is sometimes held on the last day of one of 

 the periods of dancing. There are four songs for this ceremony; 

 these are similar in character, and only two are recorded. The cere- 

 mony is said to be very simple, the man or woman desiring the divorce 

 merely going through the motions of throwing something outside the 

 dancing circle as these songs are sung. 



No. 67. Divorce Song 



Sung by Mec'kawiga^bau 



(Catalogue No. 428) 



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Analysis. — This melody consists of four parts, two of which are 

 major and two minor in tonality. The song opens with a particularly 

 bright and happy strain in which the rhythmic unit occurs twice; a 

 few measures later this unit is used (without the tied notes) in the 

 minor tonality. It does not appear with the return to the major 

 tonality, the rhythm of these measures being direct and somewhat 



