DENSMORE] NORTHERN UTE MUSIC 201 
when her mother’s grandfather was alive. She said that ‘‘ the wolves 
worked at all the industries. Both the men and women worked, 
and when the woman got tired the man took his turn and worked. 
Each worked five times in a day when they were smart. The wolf- 
man made a rabbit trap and tanned the hides so they were soft for 
blankets and clothing. He had a stone knife. His wife wove cloth 
of bark. They ate chokecherries and lived in a house woven like a 
birds’ nest. Their dishes were made of sand and dirt. They made 
kettles of sand and dirt and boiled meat in them. They also made 
frying pans and plates. After they made these things they had a 
fire, and when the fire was red they put the dishes in the fire for a 
long time, which made them hard and strong. Their bread was 
baked in the ashes, and they had nice white bread. Sometimes they 
made bread out of chokecherries.”’ 
In addition to the songs which are transcribed Wiyu’ts recorded a 
song which she said the wolves sang, but by an unfortunate acci- 
dent the cylinder was broken before the song could be transcribed. 
STtoRY OF THE PRAIRIE DoGs 
The following story was sung to the melody transcribed as ‘‘Rudi- 
mentary Song (a).” 
Once the prairie dogs and the wildcats were all white. There was 
a prairie-dog man who wanted a wildcat woman to run away with 
him. At first she did not like him, but afterwards she ran away with 
him. Her mother did not want her to marry the prairie dog because 
he did not hunt. Her mother wanted her to marry the magpie, who 
hunted and got rabbits and other animals. So the mother went and 
took her daughter away from the prairie dog and gave her to the 
magpie, who gave his mother-in-law everything that he got in the 
hunt. They lived up in the mountain. The mother-in-law told the 
prairie dog that he was of no use because he lived in the ground. 
