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BUREAU OF AMERICAN" ETHNOLOGY 



[bdll. 61 



No. 74. "A Spirit Has Come" (Catalogue No. 461) 



Sung by Siya^'ka 



Voice J =100 

 Drum not recorded 



ya na - gi hi ye - lo he - ta - ku a - i - wa - ye - ciq ta ■ 



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te i-ca-ge - ya na - gi hi ye-lo ta - te i-ca-ge - ya 



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na - gi hi ye - lo ta 



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te i-ca- ge - ya na - gi hi ye - lo 



tate' ida'geya with the wind 



nagi' a spirit 



hi yelo^ has come 



heta^ku something 



ai''waye^dii) I foretold 



Analysis. — Three renditions of this song were recorded; these were 

 not continuous, but were separated by cries and short spoken sen- 

 tences. Repetitions of the rhythmic unit comprise the entire song 

 except two measures, in the second of which the time was retarded to 

 permit a clear enunciation of the words. It will be noted that the 

 rhythmic unit occurs five times, and divides the song into five peri- 

 ods. This irregularity in the number of periods is of frequent occur- 

 rence in Sioux and Chippewa songs. This melody begins on the 

 twelfth and ends on the tonic, two-thirds of the progressions being 

 downward. 



See plot of this melody on page 245. 



At another time Siya'ka was with a war party, the leader of which 

 was Waqbli'-wica'sa (Eagle Man), who was also a medicine-man. 

 Eagle Man had an assistant named He-lu'ta (Red Horn). They started 

 out and had gone some distance when Eagle Man said he would ask 

 the sacred stones for news of the enemy. He told his followers to pre- 

 pare a spot of ground and to bring him a small pebble. Having painted 



