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Andh/sis. — This song contains the tones of the minor third and 

 fourth, tho lattor being sharped in throo instances. The intonation 

 of the song as a whole is wavering, yet in some renditions the de- 

 scending semitones around the accidental were sung wnth reasonable 

 accuracy. About 56 per cent of the intervals are major seconds. 

 This and song No. 204 are the only songs in the present series having 

 a compass of })iit four tones, a range occurring in only 2 of the 340 

 analyzed Chippewa songs. It is interesting to compare this with the 

 Chippewa lullaby, which is in a major key. (See song No. 149, Bull. 

 45.) 



Songs Connected with Legends 



LEGEND OF THE ^fAIDEX's LEAP 



Th3 legend of the maiden who killed herself by leaping from a rock 

 is said to be found among many tribas of Indians. The writer first 

 recorded the story and a song at Sisseton, S. Dak., among the eastern 

 Sioux. The song was said to have been sung by the maiden before 

 she leaped from the rock, but the record, being unsatisfactory, was 

 not transcribed. The incident was said to have taken place at Lake 

 Pepin, which is formed by a widening of the Mississippi River, on 

 the eastern boundary of Minnesota. A promontory on the eastern 

 shore .of Lake Pepin is known as Maiden Rock, and tradition states 

 that a Sioux maiden leaped thence and was killed on the rocks 

 below. 



A similar story was found by the writer at Standing Rock in North 

 Dakota, am(mg the Teton Sioux, who said they had been told that 

 tho rock was ''somewhere in the west." Their version was as follows : 



A young woman had promised to marry a man, but he wished to "make a name for 

 himself " before the marriage took place. He had been on the warpath, but he wished 

 to go again that he might distinguish himself by valor. When the war party returned 

 they said that he had been killed by the Crows. Sometime afterward in the course 

 of tribal wanderings a camp was made at the place where, according to the report of 

 the war party, the young man had b(>on killed. Dressing herself in her best attire, 

 the maiden went to the edge of a cliff, and after singing the following song and giving 

 the shrill "woman's tremolo," jumped into the river below. 



