112 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 75 
The plots of No. 39 and also of its duplication are shown, thus 
affording an opportunity for comparison which is clearer than that 
of the transcribed melodies. 
DRAGGING-FEET DANCE 
According to Star, an old informant, the Dragging-feet dance was 
one of the social dances held after a scalp dance. Men and women 
danced together, not alternating but standing as convenient, the 
motion of the dance being sideways, “‘with the sun.” The step was 
that recorded in the same dance among other tribes (see Bull. 61, p. 
477), one foot being advanced sideways and the other foot lifted and 
placed beside it. 
CHARACTERISTICS OF SONGS 
The drum beat with the Dragging-feet songs was in quarter notes, 
synchronous with the voice, not following after it, as in the Lame 
dance songs. Two of the songs contain particularly long rhythmic 
units, and none of the songs contain the seventh of the key. The 
minor fourth comprises 42 per cent and the fourth comprises 14 per 
cent of the entire number of intervals. 
No. 48. Dragging-Feet Danee (a) (Catalogue No. 721) 
Recorded by SingcEr No. 16 
VOICE a= = 108 
Drum g— 108 
Drum-rhythm similar to No. 20 
= Ph pS RSRE I 
Analysis.—This melody progresses chiefly by the minor third, 
which constitutes 71 per cent of the intervals. The rhythmic unit 
comprises five measures and occurs twice. It is interesting to note 
the resemblance between the opening measures of the song and the 
rhythmic unit. Nine renditions were recorded without a break in 
the time. The drumbeat was synchronous with the voice. 
