. Bulletin. Ethnology. \ro. 6] MUSIC AND DANCE^—KURATH 119' :his complete ceremony, the maskers can renew obligations at Mid- winter, on the day of medicine rites. This always opens at Sour Springs with the Doorkeeper's Round Dance (at least, on the observed occasions), and features several masked dances for different sponsors. J =156. Figure 2.—False-face Dance. In the course of their exorcisms, the maskers emit unearthly groans and improvise crawls, distorted straddling jump-hops, and angular postures. They shake their turtle-shell rattles or knock them on the door or floor, in spasmodic rei
. Bulletin. Ethnology. \ro. 6] MUSIC AND DANCE^—KURATH 119' :his complete ceremony, the maskers can renew obligations at Mid- winter, on the day of medicine rites. This always opens at Sour Springs with the Doorkeeper's Round Dance (at least, on the observed occasions), and features several masked dances for different sponsors. J =156. Figure 2.—False-face Dance. In the course of their exorcisms, the maskers emit unearthly groans and improvise crawls, distorted straddling jump-hops, and angular postures. They shake their turtle-shell rattles or knock them on the door or floor, in spasmodic reinforcement of the singer's insistent hammering. The dissonant chants are not identical at Six Nations and Allegany; yet both descend from a play on a semitone interval to a reiterated monotone, a fourth below the highest note. Frequently the monotone is flattened. Each song can be repeated as often as de- sired and immediately comiected with the next tune by a series of calls and an unbroken rattle-beat. The illustrations are drawn from the recordings by Chancey J. John of Allegany and by the Six Nations Cayuga, Joshua (Billy) Buck, whom the writer has heard at Sour Springs. Buck is a Seneca from Tonawanda Reservation, by an Onondaga-Tutelo father from Six Nations Reserve. His version is as eclectic as his heritage, for it includes New York Seneca songs as well as a collection from the several Canadian longhouses. The Sen-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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