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BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOOY 



[BULL. 61 



No. 228. "They Depend Upon You" (Catalogue No. 683) 

 Sung by Silent Woman 

 Voice Jr. 58 

 DiiDM not rocnrded 



Pte-saij-iioij-pa-wiij bli -lie - i - Ci - ya ye he kam- i - tekiq 



haij \va - ciij - ni - yaij pe - lo he - ya-pi he e 



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e caij- ua ma-zas - ka knj- hai] i - lipe- ya on- we ne hu 



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Ptesag^-nori^pawii) Two White Buffalo 



blihe^iciya ye take courage 



kami'te kiijhai/ (English word) the committee 



wadig^niyag pelo^ depend upon you 



heya^'pi they said 



^ag^na hence 



ma^zaska kiijhar)^ the money (literally ''white metal' ') 



ihpe''ya on'' we you donated 



Analysis. — This melody is ono of the praise songs, or honor 

 songs, of the tribe. Three renditions were recorded. The fu-st two 

 had no words, and the note values varied, but the tliird was as indi- 

 cated, though the florid part of the first measure can not be transcribed 

 with absolute accuracy. The song is minor in tonality, harmonic in 

 structure, and contains all the tones of the octave. The upward and 

 downward progressions are more nearly equal than usual, there being 

 15 downward and 13 upward progressions. 



