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Analysis. — Three roiiditions of this song were recorded, and 

 show no points of difference. Between the renditions the singer 

 gave ghssando "calls" or "cries," but the repetition began on the 

 the same tone as the original rendition. No change of time occurs 

 in the song — an unusual feature — and the rh34hniic unit is more 

 continuously repeated than in a majority of the songs. The first 

 tone of the rhythmic unit was strongly accented. The only tones 

 are those of the minor triad and fourth, and the structure of the song 

 is melodic with harmonic framework, the accented G precluding its 

 classification as harmonic in structure. Two-tliirds of the progres- 

 sions are downward, the melody descending steadily from the tenth 

 to the tonic. 



See plot of this melod}' on page 283. 



Goose (pi. 31), a \\-idely- known medicine-man, is what might be 

 termed a specialist in the treatment of consumption and is said to 

 have had no small degree of success in his work. Information con- 

 cerning the Sun dance and the sacred stones was also given by him. 

 (See pp. 90, 210.) Goose narrated the dream by which he felt him- 

 seK authorized to undertake the treatment of the sick. It was 

 impossible to record the songs when the story of the dream was 

 given, and unfortunately another opportunity did not occur. In 

 describing the dream Goose said: 



"\Mien I was a young man I was an excellent marksman with bow and arrows. 

 After coming in contact with the Army I was given a rifle and cartridges and never 

 missed my aim. One morning I arose before daybreak to go on a hunting trip. As 

 I went around a butte I saw an antelope, which came toward me and stood still a 

 short distance away from me. The antelope looked at me and then began to graze. 

 I took my rifle and fired several shots with no effect. I fired 16 cartridges and won- 

 dered what could be the matter. I put in four more cartridges and fired again, but 

 with no effect whatever. Then the animal stopped grazing and began to move slowly 

 away. Then I heard a voice speaking three times, then a fourth time, and the voice 

 said it was going to sing something, and 1 must listen. The voice was above me and 

 commanded me to look at the sun. 1 looked and saw that the rising sun had the face 

 of a man and was commanding all the animals and trees and everything in nature to 

 look up. In the air, in front of the sun, was a booth made of boughs. In front of the 

 booth was a very bright object and between this and the booth was a man, painted 

 and wearing an eagle-down feather, while around him flew all kinds of birds. The 

 bright object was a sacred stone, and it was heated red hot. After seeing this I heard 

 another voice telling me to look and receive what would be given me. Something 

 in the form of a bird came down, and where it touched the ground an herb sprang up. 

 This occurred tliree times. The voice above me said that I was to use these three 

 herbs in the cure of the sick. The fourth time the descending object started in the 

 form of a bird, but a human skeleton came to the ground. Then the voice above me 

 told me to observe the structure of the human body. I then saw blood run into the 

 skeleton, and a buffalo horn appeared on the back, between the shoulders, and drew 

 the blood out of the skeleton. The voice above me said this was a sign that 1 would 

 have power more than any other to cure diseases of the blood. The voice came from' 

 the sacred stone and said I must use the buffalo horn in curing diseases of the blood, 

 a practice which I have followed ever since. I do not consider that I dreamed this 

 as one dreams in sleep; it appeared to me when I was early on the chase. 



