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is Frederick Lookout and who a year ago was the principal chief of 

 the Osage, not only gave assistance with what knowledge he had of 

 the rites, but it was through his influence and urging that the old man 

 consented to give what he remembered of them. Had " Governor " 

 Lookout been less urgent the chances are that the old man would 

 never have given the information and it would probably have been 

 lost at his death. 



The words of the rituals and songs of the first part of this degree 

 have been transcribed and type-written, and the music has been 

 transcribed from the dictaphone, but the words of the songs and the 

 music of the second part have yet to be transcribed. 



Wa-thu-xa-ge also gave, in fragments, the Ni-ki-e degree of his 

 gens. It was difficult for him to recall all of the songs, rituals and 

 ceremonial forms. Of this degree he gave three rituals and eleven 

 songs. The stanzas of these songs vary in number from one to 

 eleven. Mrs. Lookout said that the Ni-ki-e degree of the Tsi-zhu 

 Wa-shta-ge gens is not half as long as those of the other gentes. 

 She had taken part a number of times in some of the ceremonial 

 forms and thus had gained her knowledge first hand. 



Aside from the two degrees of the No n '-ho n '-zhi n -ga rites, eight 

 songs of the new religion were secured from Wa-thu-xa-ge and 

 " Governor " Lookout, who both take active part in the exercises of 

 this religion. 



PRESERVATION OF INDIAN MUSIC 



Two field trips were made by Miss Frances Densmore during 

 the summer of 19 14. The first trip was to the Standing Rock reser- 

 vation in North Dakota, the purpose of which was to revise certain 

 portions of the manuscript on Sioux music ; this was accomplished 

 by reading the manuscript to several old men of the tribe. Additional 

 information was secured concerning the Hunka ceremony and the 

 Spirit-keeping ceremony, as well as on other subjects which had 

 been studied on previous visits to the reservation. Songs were also 

 recorded to complete certain series in the material in preparation 

 for publication. 



The second trip was to the Uinta and Ouray reservation in north- 

 eastern Utah. The Indians on this reservation are the northern 

 Ute who formerly lived in northern Colorado and are best known by 

 their comparatively recent expedition into South Dakota, whence 

 they were brought back by United States troops. The nucleus 

 of that expedition was the White River band of Ute, and one of 

 their leaders was Red Cap, chief of the White River band, whose 

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