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BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



( BULL. 61 



No. 226. "The Tribe You Help" (Catalogue No. 672) 



Rung by Haka'la (Youngest Child) 



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oya'te kighar)' the tribe 



wawo^kiyapo (you) help 



Pte8ag''-nog''pawii] Two White Buffalo 



wana'' now (by helping) 



igla''sota has consumed what she had ' 



Analysis. — This is a melody of the shuffling-feet dance. Two 

 renditions of the song were recorded, one being sung by Haka'la as 

 transcribed, and the other having the addition of the women's voices 

 an octave higher. The song contains only the tones E flat-G-B 

 flat-C. E flat seems the most satisfactory keynote, especially at 

 the close of the song, though the tone is not prominent in the melody. 

 Of the intervals 68 per cent are minor thirds, though with E flat as 

 keynote the song is major in tonality. The submediant chord 

 (C-E flat-G) forms the basis of a large part of the melody. The 

 triplets of eighth notes suggest the song (No. 192) in honor of Red 

 Fish and, though often repeated, have so little character that they 

 can scarcely be considered a rhytlimic unit of the song. 



> Among the Sioux it is considered a particularly high compliment to say that a person has been so 

 generous as to give away all his possessions. 



