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TETON SIOUX MUSIC 



229 



No. 72. "I Was Ordered to Return" (Catalogue No. 582) 

 Sung by Shooter 



Voice J =72 

 Drum J =152 

 Drum-rhythm simihxr to No. 19 



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tui)ka''^ila grandfather 



e'ya ku to return 



mayag^ pelo' I was ordered 



Analysis. — All the accented tones in this song are those of the 

 tonic chord, showing the song to be strongly harmonic in structure. 

 The melody tones are those of the fourth five-toned scale. The 

 interval of a fourth is prominent in both ascending and descending 

 progression, as has frequently been noted in songs concerning motion. 

 About two-thirds of the intervals in this song are downward pro- 

 gressions. 



Siya'ka (see pi. 1 and pp. 184 et seq., 439 et seq.) sang three songs of 

 the sacred stones and related instances in which he had heard of their 

 use in locating buffalo and finding the enemy. He first described a per- 

 formance by Crooked Foot (Siha'Kmin), who died in 1877. Crooked 

 Foot was asked to ascertain by means of the sacred stones where buf- 

 falo could be found. The stone which he used was egg-shaped, and 

 he was said to have found it on top of the highest butte near his home. 

 Wlien giving this performance Crooked Foot had the stone encased 

 in a bag. He said: "The stone has now gone to look for the buffalo, 

 but when it comes back you wall see it." The people then prepared 

 a place on which it was expected that the stone would appear. This 

 was done by pulverizing the earth for a space about a foot square 

 and covering tliis place \sdth buffalo hide or wdth part of a red blanket. 

 All watched this place, and after a time the stone appeared upon it. 

 Crooked Foot questioned the stone concei'iimg the location of the 

 buffalo, and the tribe, acting on his advice, found the herd as he 

 4840°— Bull. 61—18 17 



