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THE OSAGE TRIBE. 



[ETH. ANN. 39 



Wa-xthi'-zhi gave nine stanzas to the song and then said with a 

 smile that there is no end to the stanzas that coukl be given to this 

 song, for a wounded deer might fall close to a thorn-apple tree, 

 amidst the hazel brushes, or amidst the rushes of the marsh, as well 

 as close to an oak or amidst the bunch grasses. 



Knowing that the deer songs are of a supplicatory character, a 

 hunter who desires success tlii-ough the hunting season would take a 

 deer to a No'''-ho°-zhi°-ga, who alone has authority to sing them, 

 and present it to him ceremonially. In response to this recognition 

 of his office, for which he feels honored, the No°'-ho°-zhi°-ga invites 

 some of his intimate No°'-ho°-ziii°-ga friends to feast with him upon 

 the deer and in their presence sings for the hunter the deer songs 

 that will insm-e liis further success. When singing the closing song 

 the old man adds to it an extra stanza descriptive of the scene where 

 the deer presented to him had fallen. At such times the old No"'- 

 ho°-zhi"-ga would confer upon the hunter the right to wear a wreath 

 made of the vines of the wnld bean, as he goes to stalk the deer. 



Song 6. 

 (Osage version, p. 413; literal translation, p. 549.) 

 M.M. • = 160 Transcribed by Alice C.Fletcher 



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m 



Time beats 



Ta 



r r r 



xtsi-e. 



r 



r 



r 



ta-xtsi-e wa-dsu - ta zhin 



4'n n r 



1 4 I 



^ 



r r r •• f r r - 



ga, I-wi - the tho" - dse, ta 



7T — i « • — m- 



r .^ r r. 



xtsi-e, _ ta-xtsi'C, 



inin n. n n j n. n ^m 



" r r r 



Ta-xtsi-e,wa-dsu ta zhi" 



ga, Pi-^i 9a-be hi dsi 



n^ {in i i-^n^^^^^rt^ 



r r r - r r r 



to° I-wi -the thoi dse, ta 



r .r r r. 



xtsi-a,_ ta-xtsi-e. 



Note.— In singing the fourth line of the second and third stanzas the fourth and fifth notesin the seventh 

 bar are omitted, thus changing the time from -r to -r* 



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