LAFLDSCHB] RITE OF VIGIL FREE TRANSLATION, 129 



Song 2. 

 (Osage version, p. 4!1; literal translation, p. 547.) 

 M. M . J = 176 Transcribed by Alice C. Fletcher 



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the wa-tha-pa - pa 

 Deer Songs. 



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Following the Crow vSongs are the Ta Wa-tho"', Deer Songs, which 

 are sometimes spoken of as Ta Gi'-bo° Wa-tho°, Songs of Calling the 

 Deer. These Deer Songs are said to be the first of all the songs 

 composed for the war rites, as their place in the Ni'-ki Wi'-gi-e is 

 next to the sections relating to the search for and the finding of the 

 roots of four plants which were consecrated for the use of the people 

 as sacred foods. (See 36th Ann. Rept. B. A. E., pp. 182-185.) 

 These four plants, namely, Nelumbo lutea, Apios apios, Sagittaria 

 latifolia, and Falcata comosa, as well as the deer, afforded the people 

 a steady supply of food and were, for that reason, particularly men- 

 tioned in the rituals of the great war rites. The people regarded 

 these food plants and the deer not merely as natural food products 

 but also as necessary to the very existence of the tribe itself, there- 

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