DENS.MOIiEl 



TETON SIOUX MUSIC 



121 



Analysis. — This song contains two rhythmic units, but the rhyth- 

 mic structure of the song differs from that of most songs under 

 analysis in that theso two units appear to have no influence on each 

 other. The first is in triple^ the second in doul)lo, tune, and none 

 of the count-divisions are alike. The song is melodic in structure and 

 contains the tones of the fourth five- toned scale. The descending 

 fourth from the tonic to the dominant occurs with frequency. 



No. 16. Song Sung after Raising the Sacred Pole (c) (Catalogue No. 630) 

 Sung by Red Weasel 



Voice 



76 



Drum not recorded 



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WORDS (not transcribed) 



tuqka^.sila grandfather 



t(/])akiya at the places of the four winds (see p. 120, 



footnote). 



wakay^ ulla^pi nuijwe^ may you be reverenced 



ta^ku koyag^ mayaye^ you made me wear something sacred 



. oya^te war) wakari'yaq yai)ka^pi the tribe sitting in reverence 

 niwa^(!'ir)pi they wish to live 



yet enacted his dream, even as a medicine-man wears an object, or the symbol of an object, which is subject 

 to his commands. Thus No. 41 contains the words, "a wind wears me"; No. 93, "a wind comes to get 

 me:" and No. 105, "a hoop (rainbow) wears me." The term zoahu'norj'pa, or its abbreviation hu noy'pa, 

 literally " two-legged object," is used by those who treat the sick as referring to a human being (Nos. 76, 90) 

 and the term ta r;te'to'keca, ' a heart that ig different,' is used by them to indicate anger. (Songs Nos. 58, 93.) 

 The phrases "in a sacred manner," or "I have made it .sacred," are not unusual and can not be regarded 

 as an adequate translation of the Sioux. In the mind of the Sioux the meaning of the word wakay contains 

 more of mystery and a greater element of the supernatural than we are accustomed to associate with the 

 words "sacred" or "holy," though these are used as its Knglish equivalent. (See footnote, p. 88.) 



