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song. On comparison of the two transcriptions it is noted that 53 

 instead of 75 per cent of the intervals are thirds, the major and 

 minor tliirds being equal in number. The rhythmic unit is shorter 

 but has tlio same division of the first count. The compass is the 

 same, but No. 134 contains all the tones of the octave except the 

 seventh and second, while song No. 155 contains only the major triad. 



The warriors carried extra moccasins, and each man took his own 

 cup or cooking utensil, these features of the preparation being indi- 

 cated in the personal war narratives which follow. The war party 

 took also a supply of medicines for the tn^atment of the wounded. 



The leader usually carried the skin of a wolf with the head pointing 

 in the direction they were going. When the party camped he laid 

 the wolfskin on the ground with its head toward the enemy's country, 

 and when they resumed their journey the head still pomted the way. 

 No drum or rattle was used, the men walking silently. If there 

 chanced to be a man in the party who had dreamed of a wolf, he was 

 asked to perform certain ceremonies. For instance, as the warriors 

 approached the camp of the en(>my they desired bad weather, espe- 

 cially a drizzlhig rahi, to cover their attack. Th^n the medicine- 

 man would spiinkle water on the wolf hide, sing his personal song, 

 and offer a prayer, sayhig that the warriors wished for a storm in 

 which to attack then enemies. It is said that a storm usually 

 followed this procedure on the part of a medicine-man. If they had 

 difficulty in locatuig the enemy because the latter's camp had been 

 moved, they agahi called on a medicine-man to search for the enemy 

 by means of his power. If he weie able to command the sacred 

 stones, he would use them for that purpose. 



From an old wan-ior the wi'iter secm'ed a decorated shield wliich, 

 he said, he had carried in wars agamst the Crows (pis. 48, 49). The 

 shield is made of rawhide stretched over a hoop and laced with a 

 strip of hide. The greatest diameter is 16 mches. The decoration 

 on the shield was said to refer to a dream of a bear. The eight seg- 

 ments were paint(Ml alternately red and yellow, the painting on the 

 yellow segments, in black, representing bears' paws, while the space 

 below the paws was white. The warrior said that the decoration 

 commemorated a fight with the Ci-ows, and that certahi featurc^s of 

 the paintuig showed that the fight, though in the Black Hills, took 

 place in a level, open place. He said that he was "in the middle of 

 the shield and the enemies were all around him, but the claws of 

 the bear were on every side to protect him," luMu-e he was not hurt 

 in the battle. 



A typical Sioux war bonnet is sho^\^^ in plate 50. These head- 

 dresses were made of the tail feathers of the eagle, and many of them 

 were tipped with horsehair or white down. 



