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IN THREE PARTS APPENDIX 1229
Southern Tutchone Dance Song
1954, 3-2-C; recorded by Frank Italio on May 7.
There is no break or pause in the recording between
this song and the preceding "Coming-in Song." Frank
Italio continued to use the cigarbox as a drum. This is
said to be a popular dance song (lAdjlici), with Alsek
Athabaskan words, which would be sung by guests
after a potlatch. It has a lively tempo and lasts 1:17
minutes. It faUs into two parts, the only difference
between them being in the first two musical phrases
and the very last phrase.
The words are:
Part I
A
B
ya 'e 'e 'e ya 'a ha 'e,
'e 'a 'o ho 'i-ye,
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
A'
B'
C
I
ha 'o-ho-o 'i-ye ha 'o,
ho 'o 'i-ye 'a 'o ho-o 'i-ya
'a 'a ha-wi, ha ha,
'i-he 'e-hi ha,
'e-he he 'a-hi hi-ya,
'o 'o ho-o 'i-ye
'a ha ha 'e, ha ha ha,
Part II (sung twice)
sA-dju-ci-du ce 'a,
sA-dju-ci-du ce 'a 'a 'i-ye,
to I (as above)
(at end) 'a ha ha 'e, ha xwan tcuc!
Southern Tutchone Dance Song
1954, 3-2-D; recorded by Frank Italio on May 7.
This song is said to be simUar to the preceding dance
song. WhUe singing it, the potlatch guests, CAnkuqedi
or Tluk*axA.di, would hold eagle taUs in their hands,
raising and lowering them in time to the music.
The short song is sung through twice, with only
minor variations in the vocables. As usual, Frank
Italio cut it short at the end (58 seconds).
The structure is:
A
A
B
B
C
C
D
D'
X
hun hutc!—'{—?—) that's all!'
Southern Tutchone 'Ptarmigan Dance Song'
1954, 2-1-H; recorded by Mrs. Chester Johnson on
May 31.
This is an Athabaskan dance song, used by the
Tl'uknaxAdi (and probably by other Dry Bay sibs),
when invited as guests to a potlatch. It is called a
"ptarmigan dance song" because all the guests—men,
women, and children—wear white clothes, with down
on their heads and arms, and hold white feathers in
their hands, while they dance up and down like ptarmigan.
It is a fast dance.
There is a brief introduction in Tlingit (10 seconds);
the song lasts only 45 seconds. No attempt was made
at the time to transcribe the words. Indeed, there
are none, only vocables. When the song was played
back on the tape recorder, the singer's sister, Mrs.
Jenny White, who had previously remained sUent,
now sang a second, higher voice, and danced. She
wriggled her hips a little, swayed from side to side,
and moved her bent arms in time to the fast tempo.
The structure is:
A
A
A
A
B
B
B
B[!]
Southern Tutchone Sitting Down Song
1954, 3-2-E; recorded by Frank Italio on May 7.
This song, and 1954, 3-2-F, recorded Avith hardly
a pause between them, are called "sitting down songs"
because the guests who are feasting after a potlatch
sing them whUe they are seated. These songs, perhaps
also the other Southern Tutchone songs recorded by
Frank Italio, had been obtained from Nuq*a or
Nuq*ayik (p. 89) on the Alsek River, a village from
which some Dry Bay men had obtained a wife. "WeU,
they married this Interior woman. She was called
Duhan (Duhan duwasAq cawAt). She's almost as big
as a tree—tall. She's the biggest girl they ever seen,
I don't know how many of them marry her; they brought
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