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Show 1 7 4 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [ BULL. 75 PLOTS OF PARADE SONGS A wide compass and sharply descending trend characterize the plots of a majority of these songs. Thfe Parade songs were sung on horseback, but with two exceptions ( Nos. 86 and 92) the plots do not show the profile that has been associated with songs concerning 1 m m No. 86. I I I wm m a No. 87. No. 92. No. 93. FIG. 15.- Plots, Group 12 ( Parade songs) animals. Even in No. 86 the rise and fall of the outline is not from the lowest tone, as has been noted in the plots of songs concerning animals in motion. HAND GAME SONGS Among the Ute, as among other tribes, this game is played extensively and large stakes are placed upon its success. The implements of the game used by the Uinta Ute at White Rocks, Utah, and collected by Culin in 1900 comprise " four slender, highly polished bones, 3J inches in length; two bound with a strip of leather in the middle." 2' 6 The game among the Yampa Ute in northwestern Colorado was observed in 1877 by Mr. Edwin A. Barber and described as follows: " A row of players, consisting of five or six or a dozen men, is arranged on either side of a tent, facing each other. Before each man is placed a bundle of small twigs or sticks, each 6 to 8 inches in length and pointed at one end. Every t6te-&- t6te couple is provided with two cylindrical bone dice, carefully fashioned and highly polished, which measure about 2 inches in length and half an inch " Culin, Stewart, Games of the North American Indians, 24tb Ann. Kept. Bur. Axner. Ethn., p. 315. Washington, 1907. |