134 THE OSAGE TRIBE. TETn. anm. 33 



Song 4. 

 (Osage version, p. 412; literal translation, p. 548.) 



M. M. J - 160 Transcribed by Alice C.Fletcher 



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da the, o da ni -wa, da the ha daniwa to. 



FREE TRANSLATION. 



1. 



It is stricken, still lives and flees, 



I shall pvirsue and find it, wherever it goes. 



It is stridden, still lives and flees. 

 Though it has gone far I have found it. 



The fifth song has the subtitle Wa-jia'-dse Wa-tho", Butchering 

 Song. This song represents the brother as having found the wounded 

 deer, which he proceeds to butcher. The song relates particularly to 

 the form in which the skin must be cut so that there may be no waste 

 in jjreparing it for use. The duty of the warrior to protect the deer 

 from destruction by unfriendly tribes is clearly set forth in the cere- 

 mony called Wa-do'-ka We-ko, Scalp Ceremony, in which this song is 

 used. In that rite the man conducting the ceremony of cutting the 

 scalp, for distribution, of a slain enemy, simulates the cutting of the 

 deer skin by the hunter. The Scalp Ceremony will be described in 

 a later volume. 



This song has four stanzas. The first and third lines of each 

 stanza only are translated, as all the other lines are repetitions. 



