DENSMORE] MANDAN AND HIDATSA MUSIC 147 
No. 78. “ Young Wolves, Do Your Best” 
(Catalogue No. 865) 
Recorded by WOUNDED FACE 
VOICE d - 712 
Drum not recorded 
Ha-da-te ni - ka-ni-te si-ha-da-nis-ta 
WORDS (MANDAN) 
ha dato’ ani’ kanite’ young wolves 
SI NACACIISTHS Spneee ook te, bolt do your best 
PUD ORNUITNT ay, RTL OS = ate et you are men 
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Analysis—The tempo of this song is slow and the change to triple 
time gives variety to the rhythm. In harmonic form it is unusually 
regular. Seven major and seven minor thirds occur and are divided 
almost equally between ascending and descending progressions. The 
melody follows the tones of the tonic and dominant chords and 
contains all the tones of the octave except the fourth. 
The man who recorded the following song was commonly known 
as Butterfly (pl. 15, c), a name which was due to a misinterpretation 
of his Hidatsa name. In the Hidatsa he was called Apaii’ gis, mean- 
ing “ white clay nose,” but the word for “ butterfly ” is so nearly like 
this word that. white people gave him the name, by which he was 
known throughout his life. Butterfly died January 27, 1918. His 
other songs are Nos. 88 and 106. 
Butterfly said that the following song was his great-grandfather’s 
war song and was of the sort sung before the departure of a war 
party. 
