. Bulletin. Ethnology. dEUsmore] PAWNEE MUSIC 83 Analysis.—The only accented tones in this song are the keynote and fifth. The song comprises three periods, the first and last having the same rhythmic unit and the second period having a longer unit with a change of time. The interest and force of the song lie in the second rhythmic unit which contains a triple measure. The first rhythmic unit begins on an unaccented tone and the second begins on an accented tone. This peculiarity occurs also in two songs of the hand game (Nos. 43 and 47). The song contains eight descending and only thi-ee asce
. Bulletin. Ethnology. dEUsmore] PAWNEE MUSIC 83 Analysis.—The only accented tones in this song are the keynote and fifth. The song comprises three periods, the first and last having the same rhythmic unit and the second period having a longer unit with a change of time. The interest and force of the song lie in the second rhythmic unit which contains a triple measure. The first rhythmic unit begins on an unaccented tone and the second begins on an accented tone. This peculiarity occurs also in two songs of the hand game (Nos. 43 and 47). The song contains eight descending and only thi-ee ascending intervals. No. 56. Ghost Dance Song (d) Voice J ; 96 JDrum not recorded (I) . Recorded by Horse Chief (Catalogue No. 1148). Analysis.—In this song we feel the pathos of the Ghost dance. More than four-fifths of the intervals are semitones which occur only between F sharp and G, and D sharp and E. Rests occur with some frequency and were given uniformly in all the renditions. It is interesting to compare the close of the first rhythmic unit with that of the second wHich contains the same count division with a difl^erent accent. This and the succeeding song were not used in the hand game. The singer said that he composed this song when waking from a trance in the Ghost dance. He dreamed of a yellow star wliich came to him and said, "I am the star which you see in the sky at ; The star was in the form of a woman holding in her hand an eagle feather painted yellow. She gave him the feather, saying, "All the stars in the sky are ; A dream of the yellow star was induced by watching the star when in a Ghost dance trance. The favor of "yellow star" was greatly desired as she does not appear to many dancers, but she gives to her favored friends the right to wear a yellow eagle feather upright in their hair and to use it in hypnotizing other dancers. If such a feather is used imder a false pretense no results can be Please n
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