DENSMoRr] MANDAN AND HIDATSA MUSIC 158 
No. 84. “ Comrades, Sleep On” (Catalogue No. 880) 
Recorded by Crow’s HEART 
VOICE 4 = 84 
Drum not recorded 
wa - ha-@-ma-mik - tos 
WORDS (MANDAN) 
WelUkanite? 2. es eee my comrades 
ha’nananu’nista_____________sleep on 
WalhaemamiktOss-s=e— 2s oe I precede you as scout 
Analysis ——The progressions of this melody are peculiar, 17 of the 
26 intervals being whole tones and seven being fourths, the remain- 
ing two intervals comprising an ascending fifth and a descending 
minor third. F is regarded as the keynote of the song but G appears 
as the first tone in six measures and C as the first tone in the remain- 
ing four measures. The song contains all the tones of the octave ex- 
cept the sixth and seventh and has a compass of 12 tones. 
The number of scouts was in proportion to the size of the war 
party, a large expedition usually sending out 10 scouts and a small 
party only 2 scouts. The work of a scout was often lonely, and the 
scenes of home returned vividly to the mind of the watcher. The 
words of No. 85 recall the work of the young women in the gardens, 
as described on pages 52 and 53. 
