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No. 126. Moccasin Game Song 



Sung by Mec^kawiga^bau 

 VoiCB J = 96 

 Drum J =104 

 (Drum-rhythm similar to No. 126) 



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(Catalogue No. 427) 



Analysis. — This song is based on the tones of the minor triad. 

 The rhythmic unit occurs seven times, with a sHght variation in the 

 division of the first count. The speed of the phonograph was greatly 

 reduced m order to test this variation, which was found to be clearly 

 and uniformly given throughout the several renditions. The intona- 

 tion on the sixteenth notes occurring at the close of the measures v*'as 

 uncertain, these being given with a "toss of the voice." 



Song for the Entertainment of Children ^ 



No. 127. Lullaby (Catalogue No. 447) 



Sung by O^'gabea^sing^kwe 

 Voice J = 96 

 Recorded without drum 



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wc we we we ice 



we we we we we 



we we we 



Analysis. — The only two songs which the Lac du Flambeau Chip- 

 pewa were found to have in comm_on with the White Earth Chippewa 

 are the lullaby and the song accompanying the folk tale of We'nabo'jo 

 and the ducks (Bulletin 45, No. 197). This kdlaby was first recorded 

 at White Earth, Minnesota (see ibid., p. 193). On comparing the 

 two transcriptions it will be seen that the first four measures are 

 identical and that the latter parts differ, though both renditions end 

 on the same tone. This is one of the few songs composed by women 

 (see Nos. 31, 39, 40, 112, 151, 177, 178). No words are used in this 

 song, wewe^ being continuously repeated. 



1 See also songs Nos. 51, 52, S'H, 179, 180. 



2 Wewe is a root, the meaning of which implies a swinging motion; thus, wewe'bizun signifies a child's 

 swing or hammock. The writer has frequently seen a Chippewa mother put her baby, still fastened In 

 its cradle-board (atik'ami'glln), plate 39, into a hammock crudely made of a blanket stretched open with 

 a stick, which she s^^Ting back and forth until the baby fell asleep. Still more primitive is the method 

 also shown in the same plate; here the woman is seated on the ground with feet extended in front and 

 the cradle-board resting against them, enabling her to move the cradle-board slightly back and forth by a 

 motion of the feet. 



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