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Show 266 THE MIDE'WIWIN OF THE OJIBWA. submit to similar treatment and go through like movements in exhibiting the mi'gis, which they again swallow. When quiet has been restored, and after a ceremonial smoke has been indulged in, the candidate sings, or chants, the production being either his own composition or that of some other person from whom it has been purchased. The chant presented herewith was obtained from Sikas'- sig § , who had received it in turn from his father when. the latter was chief priest of the Mide'wiwin at Mille Lacs, Minnesota. The pictographic characters are reproduced on PL XVII, A, and the musical notation, which is also presented, was obtained during the period of my preliminary instruction. The phraseology of the chant, of which each line and verse is repeated ad libitum as the singer may be inspired, is as follows: Do- n&'- ga- nf, Na'- wa- kwe' in- do'- shi- tdn', dona- ga- ni'. My dish, At noon I make it, my dish. [ The singer refers to the feast which he gives to the Mide for admitting him into the Mide'wiwin.] ni; Na- lcwa- we', . . In- do^ hi- t6nDonagani, Donaga - ni, . . Do- na- ga- D. C. adlxb. g- rrrpg ni, Do- na- ga - ni, . . . Do- na |
