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songs used in the Iluijka juul vSpirit-kcoping coivm()iii<>s and in th(> Sun 

 dance;* (2) Songs concerning personal dreams; - (3) Songs concerning 

 the sacred stones;^ (4) Songs used in the treatment of the sick;* (5) 

 Songs of the Dream societies named for animals,^ consisting of men 

 who had dreamc^d of the same animal. These societies were the 

 Buffalo, Elk, and Ilorsc societies. (6) A group of war songs which 

 were believ(Hl to be more than 50 years old, including those of the 

 Miwa'tani and Kaijg'i'yuha societies." 



Group II. This group contains 93 songs, a majority of which are 

 l)elieved to be less than 50 years old, and comprises the following 

 divisions: (1) Songs of those military societies wliich are compara- 

 tively recent among the Teton Sioux. These are the Fox, Strong 

 Heart, and Badger societies, and the White Horse Riders. The fox, 

 coyote, and wolf songs are so closely related that it is impossible to 

 draw defmite lines between them, but as a compromise the songs 

 said to be Fox society or Coyote society songs are placed in this 

 group, while the wolf songs (this being a common term for all war 

 songs) arc placed in the older group. In this division are included 

 the incidental war songs and dancing songs used in the Sun dance, 

 and those songs in honor of an individual wliich were sung to melodies 

 of the military societies. Tliis division comprises 32 songs.'' (2) 

 Songs of the buffalo hunt, together with council and Chief songs, one 

 of the latter being sung at the Sun dance. ^ (3) All songs not other- 

 wise classified. The first of these are three unclassified songs in the 

 Sun dance — Song of Final Visit to the Vapor Lodge, Noon song, and 

 Song concerning the Sun and Moon (Nos. 18, 24, 25). In this division 

 are also the songs of various dances and games, those songs in honor 

 of an individual wliich were sung to dance melodies, and the miscel- 

 laneous songs recorded at Sisseton, S. Dak.** 



A comparison of the analyses of these two groups i^ showTi in tables 

 on the preceding pages. The percentage of major and minor songs 

 is the same in the two groups, except that the older group contains 

 two songs the keynote of which is so uncertain that they are classi- 

 fied as "irregular." The percentage of songs Ix'ginning on the 

 twelfth and fifth is 44 in the older songs and 35 in the modern 

 songs, but the proportion beginning on the octave is 10 jDcr cent 



> Nos. 1, 2, 3, 1. n, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 36; total 15. 

 « Nos. 37-58, inclusive; total 22. 

 3 Nos. 59-78, inclusive; total 20. 

 * Nos. 7&-9-1, inclusive; total 16. 



5 Nos. 95-113, inclusive; total 19. 



6 Nos. 122-179, inclusive, except No. 178, which is a song of the Fox society, and is included in the second 

 group. 



' Nos. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 22, 23, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 123, 124, 

 178, 223, 224, 225, 231; total, 32. 



8 Nos. 5, 180-194, inclusive; total, 16. 



9 Nos. 18, 24, 25, 196-240, inclusive, except Nos. 223, 224, 225, 231. 



