MALLERY. ] OJIBWA CHANT. 239 
I give you medicine, and a lodge, also. ( < 
The Mide’, as the personator of Makwii Man‘ido, is empowered a 
to offer this privilege to the candidate. ) 4 = 
I ain flying into my lodge. 
Represents the thunder-bird, a deity flying into the arch of 
the sky, the abode of spirits or Man/idos, The short lines cut- 
ting the curve are spirit lines. 
The spirit has dropped medicine trom the sky where 
we can get it. 
The line from the sky, diverging to various points, indicates 
that the sacred objects fall in scattered places. 
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I have the medicine in my heart. 
. The singer’s heart is filled with knowledge relating to sacred 
objects from the earth. 
The song depicted in Pl. xvi C, was drawn by “Little Frenchman,” 
an Ojibwa Mide’ of the first degree, who reproduced it from a bark 
record belonging to his preceptor. “Little Frenchman” had not yet 
received instruction in these characters, and consequently could not 
sing the songs, but from his familiarity with mnemonic delineations of 
the order of the Grand Medicine of ideas he was able to give an outline 
of the signification of the figures and the phraseology which they sug- 
gested to his mind. In the following description the first line pertain- 
ing to a character is the objective description, the second being the 
explanation. 
It is furthermore to be remarked that in this chart and the one fol- 
lowing the interpretation of characters begins at the right hand instead 
of the left, contrary to rule. The song is reproduced from Pl]. xxi, A, 
of the Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology: 
From the place where I sit. 
A man, seated and talking or singing. 
