196 POETIC TEXTS. 



E. Modoc dancing tunes. 



ht'o l)i'o h(Jo lu;o, h^o heo h^o lieo 

 haudidusii haudidusLi haudldusii haiididusa 

 3 Stan stdn stdni assi st<4ni assi 

 lioy6-inna hoy6-inna, 



hoy6 winna hoy6 winna, hoy6 winna'-a'. 

 6 liAw6nen-i' hawgnneiiiiha, hawenngnaha h/iweiigii-i' 

 iwop tcharle kumtuho' 



TUNES HEARD AT FUNERALS. 



k^lakennu ke^lakeniiu kclakennu kelakenu kelaya-a 



9 liihalia l^haha 14haha lahaha 



liihihi ynyaya yiiyaya liiliihi 



htiya heiia h^ya heua h^ya heua 



NOTES. 



194; 1-8. These whoops aud tunes were sung by Modoc warriors wheu ou the 

 Avar path, or after their return in renieinbrance of their exploits. The whoops were 

 chanted aud howled while j;oing loiind in a circle for one to two hours; even now 

 they are heard on solemn occasions. Tliis uniform performance was, however, inter- 

 rupted sometimes by feigned attnclcs on ;i supposed hostile force lying in ambush or 

 inarching past. A scalp-dance tune, beginning with nkeiha, is added, also battle cries. 



194; 2. The kii' kii' kii' retrain serves as au incidental interruption of the weaha- 

 and other whoops. They iiroiiounce it almost voicelessly by tapping their hands upon 

 the blowuuj) month or cheeks in a quick measure. 



194; 3. The noke noke is sung either as an introduction to the howiena'-whoop, or 

 as a conclusion to it. It is ])ronounce<l in a similar manner as the ka' kii', and often 

 accentuatetl nolve/. 



194 ; 7. Tills jscalp-dance tune is one of the many heard at these dances during the 

 earlier Modoc wars. A jjceled tree, sometimes twenty feet high, was planted into the 

 ground, otter and rabbit skins fastened on or near the top, and below them the scalps 

 of the enemies killed in battl(>. Forming a wide ring around this pole (walash) the 

 tribe danced, stood or sat on tlie ground, looking sometimes at solitary dancers, moving 

 and yelling (yil'ka) around the pole, or at others, who tried to shake it, or at fleet 

 horses introduced to run inside of the ring. Circular dances are of course performed 

 by joining hands. 



194; 8. The.se are the wai--whoops alluded to in 23, !.">. <'t. ;i olio u'tclina in 

 Dictionary. 



194; 9 etc. 1 include under the heading ''Immming tunes" lively tunes of sliort, 

 ever returning periods of words whose signification is generally obliterated. Some 

 of them mav include archaic; words and forms no longer niidcrstood by tlie prcsi'iit 



