76 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 80 
No. 25. Song When Making the Eagle Trap 
(Catalogue No. 827) 
VOICE oe 88 (d)- 476) 
Drum not recorded 
WORDS (HIDATSA) 
AWalSiet Saat ee ne eee the fog 
PU" a2 2 he et eee I summon 
Analysis —Two renditions of this song were recorded and show 
no points of difference. This is interesting in view of the fact that 
the song comprises a rhythmic unit four times repeated, and that 
this unit contains a measure in three-four time followed by a meas- 
ure in seven-eight time, this in turn being succeeded by one in 
triple time. The final measure of the unit is slightly changed in its 
second and fourth occurrences. The intonation was wavering, yet 
the intervals of a major triad were unmistakable. From the last three 
tones there was a downward glissando which cannot be indicated in 
notation and which did not end on a definite tone. This suggested a 
trailing of the voice. Only one interval other than a third occurs in 
the song, this being an ascending fifth midway through the song. 
Twenty-three progressions occur in the melody, 14 of which are | 
minor thirds, yet the tonality of the song is major, the only tones 
occurring in it being B flat—-D-F. 
