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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  The 
  songs 
  are 
  given 
  in 
  no 
  copy 
  precisely 
  in 
  the 
  order 
  in 
  which 
  

   they 
  are 
  used, 
  the 
  roll 
  call 
  song, 
  for 
  instance, 
  being 
  partly 
  sung 
  on 
  

   the 
  way 
  to 
  the 
  woodside 
  fire, 
  being 
  interrupted 
  by 
  the 
  ceremonies 
  

   there. 
  On 
  leaving 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  resumed, 
  either 
  from 
  the 
  beginning 
  or 
  

   the 
  interruption, 
  but 
  is 
  terminated 
  soon 
  after 
  reaching 
  the 
  council 
  

   house. 
  The 
  words 
  of 
  mutual 
  greeting 
  follow 
  in 
  this 
  appropriate 
  

   place, 
  and 
  a 
  mourning 
  chant 
  succeeds. 
  Then 
  a 
  curtain 
  is 
  hung 
  

   across 
  the 
  center 
  of 
  the 
  council 
  house, 
  dividing 
  the 
  two 
  brother- 
  

   hoods. 
  On 
  the 
  side 
  where 
  the 
  visiting 
  brothers 
  are 
  seated, 
  seven 
  

   bunches 
  of 
  wampum 
  are 
  hung 
  over 
  a 
  stick, 
  and 
  several 
  Indians, 
  with 
  

   bowed 
  heads, 
  sing 
  the 
  Great 
  Hymn 
  over 
  these. 
  The 
  effect 
  is 
  fine. 
  

   The 
  curtain 
  is 
  then 
  removed, 
  having 
  been 
  intended 
  to 
  represent 
  the 
  

   way 
  in 
  which 
  women 
  cover 
  the 
  head 
  while 
  looking 
  on 
  the 
  dead. 
  A 
  

   chief 
  of 
  the 
  condoling 
  party 
  takes 
  the 
  wampum, 
  a 
  bunch 
  at 
  a 
  time, 
  

   holding 
  it 
  in 
  his 
  hand 
  and 
  chanting 
  a 
  sympathetic 
  speech. 
  [See 
  

   sixth 
  tune] 
  This 
  commences 
  in 
  a 
  very 
  peculiar 
  way, 
  but 
  other- 
  

   wise 
  the 
  chant 
  is 
  almost 
  monotonous. 
  At 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  each 
  division 
  

   he 
  delivers 
  wampum 
  to 
  the 
  mourners, 
  but 
  the 
  speech 
  seems 
  to 
  call 
  

   for 
  more 
  wampum. 
  The 
  curtain 
  is 
  hung 
  again, 
  the 
  mourners 
  sing 
  

   the 
  Great 
  Hymn, 
  and 
  the 
  curtain 
  is 
  finally 
  taken 
  away. 
  Then 
  the 
  

   mourners 
  speak 
  to 
  the 
  visitors. 
  They 
  have 
  received 
  but 
  six 
  bunches, 
  

   the 
  first 
  having 
  been 
  replaced 
  at 
  once 
  on 
  the 
  stick. 
  Usually 
  now 
  

   the 
  one 
  who 
  has 
  delivered 
  the 
  mourning 
  wampum 
  acts 
  for 
  the 
  other 
  

   brotherhood, 
  going 
  across 
  the 
  central 
  space 
  and 
  facing 
  the 
  other 
  

   way. 
  

  

  The 
  chant 
  and 
  ceremony 
  are 
  repeated 
  by 
  them 
  in 
  turn, 
  the 
  wam- 
  

   pum 
  being 
  given 
  back 
  with 
  a 
  slight 
  change 
  in 
  words. 
  This 
  form 
  

   Mr 
  Hale 
  found 
  in 
  what 
  he 
  thought 
  the 
  Onondaga 
  dialect, 
  but 
  which 
  

   was 
  mainly 
  Mohawk. 
  He 
  called 
  it 
  the 
  Book 
  of 
  the 
  Younger 
  Na- 
  

   tions, 
  but 
  it 
  is 
  used 
  by 
  either 
  brotherhood 
  as 
  circumstances 
  require, 
  

   a 
  few 
  words 
  being 
  changed. 
  Daniel 
  La 
  Fort's 
  manuscript 
  was 
  used 
  

   by 
  Mr 
  Hale, 
  slight 
  variations 
  occurring 
  in 
  copying 
  it, 
  but 
  none 
  

   affecting 
  the 
  sense. 
  Having 
  the 
  original 
  in 
  his 
  hands 
  the 
  writer 
  

   went 
  carefully 
  over 
  this 
  with 
  the 
  Rev. 
  Albert 
  Cusick 
  ( 
  Sa-go-na- 
  

   qua-de), 
  who 
  had 
  used 
  this 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  installation 
  ceremony. 
  The 
  

   proper 
  sounds 
  are 
  given 
  and 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  division 
  into 
  words 
  and 
  syl- 
  

   lables. 
  In 
  repeating 
  this 
  form, 
  great 
  stress 
  is 
  laid 
  upon 
  a 
  syllable 
  

   or 
  word 
  at 
  intervals, 
  and 
  the 
  rest 
  follows 
  in 
  a 
  rapid 
  monotone. 
  

  

  