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Show DBNSMORE] NORTHERN TJTE MUSIC 79 TABULATED ANALYSIS OF BEAR DANCE SONGS- Continued RHYTHMIC ANALYSIS- continued TABLE 21A.- TIME UNIT OF MORACHE Metronome- 58 63 66 104 108 120 144 152 Morache not recorded Total Number of songs 1 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 7 17 Serial Nos. of songs 10. 13,14. 12. 3,8. 9. 15. 17, 2. 1, 4, 5, 6, 7,11,16. TABLE 22A.- COMPARISON OF TIME UNIT OF VOICE AND MORACHE Serial Nos. of songs Time unit of voice and morache the same Voice faster than morache Morache not recorded Total 3, 8, 9,10,12,13,14,15,17. 2. 1, 4, 5, 6, 7,11,16. THE SUN DANCE The Sun dance of the Utes is said to have been received by them from the Arapaho about the year 1902. It is held each year at the full moon, usually in June. A Sun dance was held on the Uinta and Ouray Reservation in June, 1914, against the orders of the Government. Plate 9 shows the place where this dance was held; also the pole and part of the brush inclosure. This place is on a level part of the high plateau, affording an ample place for camping. It is the same ground where Sun dances had been held for many years, and numerous poles were still standing when the place was visited by the writer. No element of suffering entered into this dance beyond the effects of fasting and of long- continued dancing. No lacerations seem to have been practiced by the Utes at any period. The dance was held by them for the curing of the sick. Many accounts of remarkable cures were related. It was said that " participation in the Sun dance would cure any thing/' but the disease most frequently mentioned in connection with it is rheumatism, which is prevalent on the reservation. On being asked how the cure was effected, Pa/ gitS, |