MALLERY. } METAI CHART. 247 
Metai, to the beat of his bwoin ah-keek, or drum. The line from the 
sides of the head of the figure indicate hearing. 
b. Who makes this river flow? The Spirit, he makes this river flow. 
The second figure is intended to represent a river, and a beaver 
swimming down it. 
c. Look at me well, my friends; examine me, and let us understand 
that we are all companions. 
This translation is by no means literal. The words express the 
boastful claims of a man who sets himself up for the best and most 
skillful in the fraternity. 
ad. Who maketh to walk about, the social people? A bird maketh 
to walk about the social people. 
By the bird the medicine man means himself; he says that his voice 
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Fic. 165—Song for Medicine Hunting. 
has called the people together. Weej-huh nish-a-nauba, or weeja- 
nish-a-nau-ba seems to have the first syllable from the verb which 
means to accompany. The two lines drawn across, between this figure 
and the next, indicate that here the dancing is to commence. 
e. 1 fly about and if anywhere I see an animal, I can shoot him. 
This figure of a bird (probably an eagle or hawk) seems intended to 
indicate the wakefulness of the senses and the activity required to in- 
sure success in hunting. The figure of the moose which immediately 
follows, reminding the singer of the cunning and extreme shyness of 
that animal, the most difficult of all to kill. 
f. I shoot your heart; I hit your heart, oh, animal—your heart—I hit 
your heart. 
This apostrophe is mere boasting awd is sung with much gesticula- 
tion and grimace. 
g. | make myself look like fire. 
