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BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



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Analysis. — ^More than 60 per cent of the intervals in this song 

 are hirger than a minor tliird. Tliis is an unusual proportion of 

 large intervals. Fifteen of these intervals are fourths, nine are 

 fifths, and one is an octave. Two renditions were recorded; these 

 sliow no points of difference. The melody is minor in tonahty and 

 contains all the tones of the octave except the sixth and seventh. 



See plot of this melody on page 2cS3. 



The following song was used with the same herb as the preceding 

 and was sung when the patient began to improve. 



No. 82. "I Am Sitting" 



Sung by Eagle Shiklu 



(Catalogue No. 515) 



Voice J— 184 

 Drum not recorded 



hai] - ya - ke 



ni - yaij 



WORDS 



wakaQ^yai] in a sacred manner 



make^ lo I am sitting 



mato' ti^pi 6a. at bear lodge ^ 



wakag'yag in a sacred manner 



make^ lo I am sitting 



hagya^ke. at night 



oma'niyai) roaming about 



hema^kiye yo is said to me 



Analysis. — This song contains only one interval larger than a minor 

 third and is an interesting contrast to. the song next preceding, in 

 which more than half the intervals were larger than a minor third. 



1 This probably refers to Bear Butte in the Black Hills. The Teton speak of two buttes by this name, one 

 in South Dakota, and one in Montana which is higher and is probably the one mentioned by Red Fox in 

 connection with his war expedition. (See p. 370.) Concerning tlic one which seems to be referred to in 

 this song, Rev. J. Owen Dorsey says { Eleventh Rep. Bur. Elhn., p. 448): "Eight miles from Fort Meade, 

 S. Dakota, is Mato tipi, Grizzly Boar Lodge, known to the white people as Bear Butte. It can be seen from 

 a distance of a hundred miles. Of this landmark Bushotter writes thus: ' The Teton used to camp at a flat- 

 topped mountain, and pray to it. This mountain had many large rocks on it, and a pine forest at the 

 summit. The cliildren prayed to the rocks as if to their guardian spirits. ' " 



