128. Matthews, Washington. The Mountain Chant, p. 420. 129. Mindeleff, Cosmos. Navaho Houses, pp. 504-505. 17th Ann. Rep. Part II. Bur. of Amer. Eth. Washington. 1898. 131. Curtis, Edward S. The North American Indian, vol. III, p. 72. 132. Curtis, Natalie. The Indians’ Book, p. 53. 133. Fletcher, Alice C. The Hako, pp. 319-320. 135. _Ibid._, pp. 343-344. 136. Fletcher, Alice C. The Omaha Tribe, pp. 586-587. Bur. of Amer. Eth. Washington. 1907. 138. _Ibid._, pp. 557-558, p. 573: “In the ritual, the primal rock, ... that which rose from the waters, is addressed by the term ‘venerable man.’ His assistance is called to the ‘little ones,’ the patients about to be administered to.” 142. _Ibid._, pp. 115-117. 144. _Ibid._, pp. 119-122. 145. La Flesche, Francis. The Osage Tribe, pp. 150-151. 146. Fletcher, Alice C. The Omaha Tribe, p. 130. _See also_ A Study of Omaha Indian Music, p. 39. Archæological and Ethnological Papers, Peabody Museum, Harvard University. Vol. I, no. 5. 147. The Omaha Tribe, p. 394. 148. Curtis, Natalie. The Indians’ Book, p. 153. This Cheyenne song was sung by the old men, often from the summit of the hills at dawn. 152. The recessional movement appears in _The Song of a Wolf_ in Miss Densmore’s Teton-Sioux Music, p. 190. Bulletin 61. Bur. of Amer. Eth. Washington. 1918. 154. Moulton, Richard G. Literary Introductions: Modern Readers’ Bible, pp. 1457-1458. 160-1. Matthews, Washington. (1) The Night Chant, pp. 282-283. (2) Navaho Legends, p. 269. 161. Matthews, Washington. (3) The Night Chant, pp. 294-295. (4) _Ibid._, pp. 279-280. 162. Curtis, Natalie. The Indians’ Book, p. 10. 163. Cushing, Frank. Zuñi Folk Tales, p. 255. 164. Mr. John P. Harrington is one of the few investigators who have taken account of the use of pitch in an Indian language. His discussion of this element in the Tewa speech may be found in his study of the _Tiwa Language, Dialect of Taos, New Mexico_, page 15. Papers of the School of American Archæology, number 14; also in American Anthropologist, volume 12, number 1. 1910. 166. See Dr. E. W. Scripture’s discussion of oral verse, _Die Verskunst und die experimental Phonetik, Wiener Medizenische Wochenschrift_, 1922. 172. _See_ Mrs. Mary Austin’s The American Rhythm, pp. 3-65. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Acknowledgments are due to the following persons, societies, and companies for their courteous permission to quote poems on which they hold the copyright: Austin, Mary: The American Rhythm, Harcourt, Brace & Co.; Harper’s Magazine. Barbeau, C. M.: Huron and Wyandot Mythology. Dept. of Mines, Geological Survey, Ottawa, Canada. Burton, Frederick: American Primitive Music. Moffat, Yard. Now published by Dodd, Mead. Converse, Harriet M.: Myths and Legends of the New York State Iroquois. New York State Museum. Corbin, Alice: Red Earth. R. F. Seymour, Chicago. Curtis, Edward S.: The North American Indian. The North American Indian, Inc., N. Y.