DENSMoRE] MANDAN AND HIDATSA MUSIC Gls 
No. 20. Song of the Black Eagle (Catalogue No. 822) 
VOICE d - 92 
Drum not recorded 
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a@- wa-a-ku-hak ma - ni-rits 
WORDS (HIDATSA) 
Wale on = yee Be ee Se above the earth 
MTT ES tent sop tee ee I walk 
PDS Welly Wee UL eal eek 2c pe ee ens eS on the earth 
MAN TCS ee eee I walk 
Analysis —In this, as in the song next preceding, the intonation 
was wavering, but the harmonic form and the rhythmic unit are 
interesting. ‘The song is minor in tonality and contains only the 
tones of the minor triad and seventh. Four renditions were re- 
corded. The second, third, and fourth renditions are uniform in 
every respect and from them the transcription was made, the first 
rendition differing in some unimportant respects. 
Next came the coyote, who said: “ You are forgetting me. I am 
the one who runs around and sees everything. You can not do with- 
out me and I want you to include my song.” So the coyote taught 
him this song. 
