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of the entire song as a rhythmic unit, complete and homogeneous. 

 The metric unit of both voice and drum is slow and the general effect 

 of the song is different from that of the majority of songs under 

 analysis. 



When the boy E'niwiib'e returned from his fasting vigil his grand- 

 father insisted that he dance before tasting food; he also talked with 

 him, asking long life for him and saying that he needed water to 

 drink. Other boys returned at the same time from their fasts and 

 E'niwub'e's grandfather talked to them all. Near liis door there 

 was a medicine pole (similar to those described on p. 248), around 

 which the boys danced while E'niwub'e's grandfather sang the 

 followmg song. There was a hole through the medicine pole just 

 below the banner of deerskin. At the foot of the pole the old man 

 placed a birchbark dish. As the boys danced and the old man sang 

 a strange thmg happened — water flowed from the hole in the pole 

 and fell into the dish.' When it was full E'niwub'e's grandfather 

 stopped the dancers and gave them this water to drink. In this 

 manner their fast was broken. Both these fastmg songs by E'ni- 

 wub'e's grandfather were "composed in his dreams," and the medi- 

 cine pole was made to correspond to that which he saw in one of his 

 visions. (Compare Me'dweya'sfni's medicine pole, p. 249.) 



No. 101. Song After a Boy Returns from Fasting 



(Catalogue No. 422) 

 Sung by E'niwub^e 

 Voice J — 144 

 Drum J — 80 

 ( Drum-rhythm similar to No. 2 ) 



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' A similar practice is said to exist among the Assiniboin of Montana, a medicine-man tracing a zigzag 

 1 ine on the Sun-dance pole, drawing his feather fan down this line, and causing water to flow from the pole 

 (or the refreshment of those taking part in the Sun dance. 



