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No. 163. Moccasin Game Song (Catalogue No. 305) 



Sung by Ki^miwun 

 Voice J = 96 

 Drum J - 108 

 (Drum-rhythm similar to No. 125) 



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Analysis. — This song contains only the tones of the tonic triad and 

 sixth, the melody moving freely along harmonic lines. It has been 

 noted that in some songs containing these tones the sixth is used as 

 a passing tone, the melody being based on the tonic triad, while in 

 other instances the sequence of the tones is such as to produce the 

 minor triad with minor seventh as an integral part of the melodic 

 framework. This song belongs to the latter group, the sixth being 

 accented in the fourth measure and appearing again in the sixth 

 measure, after which it is used only as a passing tone. (See Nos. 133, 

 147, 151, 152, 153, 154.) The song is major m tonality, yet 12 of the 

 intervals (55 per cent) are intervals of a minor third. (See Nos. 140, 

 141, 151, 161.) The song contains no rhythmic unit. The division 

 of the first count of the third measure is also noted in Nos. 152, 153, 

 157, 159, 161. Three renditions of the song were recorded, which 

 are identical in every respect. In this, as in most of the moccasin 

 game songs, the metric unit of the drum is faster than that of the 

 voice. 



Dance Songs 



The woman's dance is a feature of every gathering of the Minnesota 

 Chippewa, but has never been introduced on the Lac du Flambeau 

 Reservation iq Wisconsin. This dance is said to have been acquired 

 from the Sioux (see pp. 45, 46; also Bulletin 45, p. 192). The 

 dancers face the drum, moving clockwise, in a circle. In plate 45 

 are shown the Waba'cing Chippewa in a woman's dance. A shade 

 of branches has been erected over the drummers, but the women 

 wear their plaid woolen shawls. In this instance the men and women 

 are dancing by themselves. A more common arrangement, when 

 gifts are being freely exchanged, is for a man and a woman to dance 

 together, the men and women alternating around the circle. 



