80 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 80 
No. 30. Song Concerning the Twine (Catalogue No. 832) 
VOICE d - 66 
Drum not recorded 
Analysis —The rhythmic unit of this song is short and not dis- 
tinctive. All the tones of the octave occur in the song, which is 
melodic in structure and major in tonality. At the close of the 
song the voice trailed downward in a glissando which is impossible 
of transcription. 
LEGENDS 
ORIGIN OF THE FLAGEOLET 
RELATED BY BEN BENSON 
At a place called the “ Round Missouri” Granny had her home. 
A creek called “True Earth Creek” flowed into the Short Missouri, 
and around the Short Missouri was a flat on which Granny’s garden 
patch was located.”* Old Granny often went to look at her field. 
Once, just before reaching the mouth of the creek, she saw the print 
of a little child’s foot in the soft ground, and when she reached the 
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7% The Old Woman Who Never Dies was sometimes called Grandmother, and her con- 
nection with the corn has already been ncted (p. 41). Will and Hyde, summarizing an 
account by Maximilian, state that ‘‘ Her residence was for a long time on the west side 
of the Missouri, some 10 miles below the Little Missouri River, on the banks of a little 
slough known as the Short Missouri. A single large house-ring here is pointed out as 
the site of her home, and the high bottom there is said to have been the Grandmother’s 
field. According to the traditions, she became impatient at the too frequent visits of 
the Hidatsas and moved into the west.’’ (Corn among the Indians of the Upper Mis- 
souri, p. 223.) The location is evidently the same as that given in connection with 
this legend, identifying ‘‘ Granny ” as the Old Woman Who Never Dies. 
A somewhat different version of this tale is recorded by Kroeber, with the title 
“ Moon-child.” The boy is the child of the Moon and an earth woman. His mother 
escapes to the earth and is killed, but he lingers near her body and steals his food from 
the garden of an old woman. He is discovered by the old woman, who addresses him as 
“My grandchild Moon-child.” This version contains no mention of a flageolet, Kroeber, 
Gros Ventre Myths and Tales, pp. 90-94. : 
