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IN THREE PARTS APPENDIX 1281
song, and notes that Part II is less Tlingit in character
than pan-Indian.
Jenny Jack's version (6-1-A) varies somewhat in
words and structure for Part II:
ya 'a-wa 'a-wa-ha ha
ya 'a-ni-hi 'a-wan-da
na-ka [or ^a]-t^a-wa cke-hen-da
'a-ha ya-ha ho-ho 'a-wa
yo-ho 'a-wa-ha ho-ho 'a-wa
This whole part is repeated as:
'a 'a ya 'a-wa cu-wan-da
ya 'a-ni-hi 'a-wan-da
na-ka-tsa-wa cke-hen-da
ha-ha yo-ho ho-ho 'a-wa
yo-ho 'a-wa ho-ho 'a-wa (hu)
The structure of this version is thus quite different
from that of Nick Milton, even though the musical
phrases are very similar.
The version by Nick Milton (1954, 6-1-J) was the
only one transcribed.
Teqwedi Shaman's Song: Spirit of LucwAq
1954, 1-1-C; recorded by Charley White on March 23.
This is the song of the ghost of the Luiedi or Tlaxayik-Teqwedi
warrior, LucwAq who was killed at
WuganiyE by the Tl'uknaxAdi and who declared when
dying that he would become a spirit (yek) against
them (p. 267). As a shaman's spirit he is known as the
'Spirit above Yakutat Bay' (Tlaxayik kina qwani),
or 'Spirit of Tlaxa,' a camp near Disenchantment Bay.
He was one of the spirits controlled by Tet-'ic.
The song was introduced by Charley White in
Thngit, later translated by John EUis as: "I'm going
to teU you about my uncle, my father's older brother;
he's the one who became a shaman. He was caUed
Lxagusa ['sees the war']. That's his spirit song, I'm
going to sing."
The song, with a refrain, and a stanza (sung twice)
lasts 1:32 seconds. The singer beat on the drum in an
irregular rhythm, probably imitating the shaman's
rattle. He concludes in Thngit, as translated by John
EUis: "Thus (yu 'eya) the words of the song
('AcuklAxuxs) of my grandfather's spirit ('ax lillt'^ du
yegi)."
He then repeated the words of the song, which
seemed to be somewhat different both from the version
he had previously dictated and from what he had
sung. Thus: '"AUAX (there) ke-xa-wagut (I'm going
up) Tlaxa (Disenchantment or Yakutat Bay) kinak
(above), 'AUAX (there) xa-yux-dje'a (I look down
through a hole) GudAlltexl (Eagle Fort on the Situk
River, see p. 79) kinak (above)."
What he had previously dictated was:
,AnAx k^'ayu 'uwugut—I [he?] am going to go up
there.
'AnAx xa yuxdzi 'a—There I turned my face down
Gudiyfxl-tl'elx [GudAlkexl] kinak—Above liagle Fort
'AUAX xa wuxte 'a—There I looked through a hole
Gudiyfxl-tl'elx kinak—Above Eagle Fort.
'AUAX k^xagut Tlaxa kinak—There I wiU go above
Yakutat Bay.
A
B
C
D
E
F
As transcribed from the tape the words seem to be:
Refrain
'a ha ha ha
'uwe he 'ehe
'a ha ha-a, 'uwe huhe
'e-ye-e he he
'a ha huwe hehe
'a he he, he he ya
Stanza (sung twice)
A' 'unA-Ax ke-he—I am going to
B ka gu-hu da-ha—Go
C Laxata-a kina ha-a—^Above Yakutat Bay
D' 'a-a, 'a ha ha-a
E' 'i ya ha, 'iya ha,
F' 'a ha- 'a ha ha,
A' 'una-Ax ya—I'U my face
B" kA-lita-a 'a-a—Put down [i.e., look]
C -ha ha, GudAlkexl kina ha—Above Eagle Fort
D 'a ha ha, 'a he ha
('a ha, 'a ha u!) [on repeat]
McAllester notes that as heard on the tape the pitch
rises, which may be an effect produced by a fluctuation
in the current during the recording.
The structure of the song is:
Refrain: A B C D E F
Stanza: A' B C D ' E' F'
A' B" C D (repeated)
It is to be noted that the melody as sung lacks two
musical phrases at the end of the stanxa. This makes
it probable that Maggie Harry (who heard the recording)
was correct when she said that "two words" had
been omitted and that this was at the end. The words
which she dictated were: cyAi qut XAt gAtAnitc—
"I was very proud of myseU."
Swanton (1909, Song 7, p. 391) has recorded a very
simUar song, said to have belonged to a Kagwantan