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THE OSAGE TRIBE. 



fETII. ANN'., 39 



that 'the enemy be struck with fear so that their feet, legs, bodies, 

 arms, heads, or mouths will be seized with cramps and may become 

 incapable of fighting. 



Song 5. 



(Osage version, p. 493; literal translation, p. 616.) 

 MM J r 80 Transcribed by Alice C. Fletcher 



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The music of Songs 5 and (3 is the same but the words are different 

 in meaning. In Song (3 the act of the warriors of stepping upon 

 or marching over the four bunches of grass is again referred to. 

 The act, however, is not individual but representative of unity in 

 thought, pm-pose, and action by the people in all tribal military 

 affairs; it is the act of the symbolic man who ever personates the 

 organic principle of the tribe. In other words, the warriors of the 

 two great tribal divisions, as they take the fom- sacred steps, 

 acknowledge their obligation to act as one man — one in thought, one 

 in purpose, and one in action. In accordance with tribal symbolic 

 conception of unity they take thus the four steps and go forth to 

 engage in confhct with the enemy. 



The use of archaic words in vSongs 5 and G makes it difficult to 

 give a full and free translation in a few words. 



Song 6. 

 (Osage version, p. 494: literal translation, p. 616.) 

 (For music see Song 5.1 



In Song 7 the use of archaic words makes it difficult to give a full 

 translation, but the song refers to the final appeal by the Do-do"'- 

 ho"-ga for supernatural aid. 



