129 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 80 
No. 52. Fox Society War Song (a) (Catalogue No. 895) 
Recorded by Wortr HEAD 
VOICE d - 16 
Drum not recorded 
Analysis —This song contains only one interval larger than a major 
third. It is minor in tonality and contains all the tones of the octave 
except the second. There was no break in the time between the ren- 
ditions. The song is not rhythmic in general character and contains 
no rhythmic unit. 
Old Dog said that the following song was sung by members of the 
Fox Society when one of their number had been killed in battle, also 
stating that the same song was sung if a man were wounded while 
on the warpath and died after reaching home. He said they all 
“went and looked at him,” then stood in a line and sang the song. 
They mixed tobacco and “red willow” and gave it to the dead man, 
who was arrayed in his finest clothing and headdress. The body was 
then wrapped and placed on a scaffold. The warrior’s lance, on 
which was the fetish given him by his “ tribal father,” was transferred 
to another man. Old Dog said that he had seen and taken part in 
this simple ceremony six times, the last time being in 1880, when a 
war party of his people went toward the north, probably against the 
Crees and Chippewa. 
