The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 16, 1902, Page 7

SUNDAY CALL. THE E VR AN INDL nstructor at the Un rofa is 2 i ver- t dian. bes have some account of the begin- ind of how T songs of magic charm. The graphophone will wheel them off in weird cadences long be w N rig " o Very few of these stories have after the last Yuki who knows them has g e een- recorded by Wwhite people hGE: passed away. ec ¢ fow Indians know them Some are dancing songs. They are t 1 mate wavs very unwilling chants that circle of dancers used to sy - L ,\ ; he », 3 v‘: keep up during one, sometimes two-night e 1 the race. In a few of revelry. Nowaday sors a t r S rher ey may have heen wiling Indians dance ¥ iGent - thev have been le to do so 1‘ .-nvh 3, waltzes and two ste ; i o 3 ::w!‘:": ‘h\y you to sirg and that have no o & g el g T Lo citement such as tlhe old dan 3 ' : it s L real Indian dance is a rare di - AT oS i takes place only when tie 7 oot it for his own or his vis s . 0 AL o ment. This is usually on one of our holi- &2 R St Same days, such as Christmas or the Fourth of s ; & : 10 July, when work laid d : POt 5 W reservation, and the neighbor ¢ e DRk it ba B e cows and Little Lakes join the Yukis In t celebrating. . ¢ t the two worked at it Then the songs are heard, the same e p there at the reservation. Moore went that Moore has left in the graphophone. . = t i man’s home and listened to The doctoring songs are very old—hun- i 1 he recounted the myth s.0 dreds, perhaps thousands of years old, Over and over his g and it was a big ievement to get Univer-= sty of Californi to Assist in Preserving the Lore and Legends of the Yukis and to Teach the Us: of Their Curious and Ancient Relics a 16 ot Then these in correct form, for they are rarely (OLLEGE ers. They are netted closely so that they this is worn 1 awarded prizes He Sang the Songs of His Tribe Into the Myste- rious Gra- phophone That They Mighit Be Per- petuated for the Earsof Whitellen each bird 4 o “’l’.f‘m’r;',f\ t u:iv:- known and still more rarely given to the labor gathering 3 ake their a d ) t dd outsiders They are arms which the it cussed ha b i e doctor was wont to use when éxamir tipped with g - AP the patient. to aid him in locating the 3 SO disease to thes anthropolo ts. " the Yull: language was recopied It was a still bigzer#achiévement to get ik ? the poison songs on record, for these are It was first' written in. the Yuki lan. known -by almost none of the tribe and Foage a5 told By the old man. Then it are held as dark secrets. They are sup- whs. {iar o il 165 W % posed to be as potent as the most deadly . lish. Obscure passages w pecison in making w with the one at ‘ tangs SRl CApIRINR : BONER - HOCARtEa 1h whom the dread incantation is directed NG N course of*the stc 2 et s The love songs have a fascinating ~a- nu corded carefully. he result is-that the e lon Pagus Rras Ty o iha account of the creation is now re- o 28 gl %5 . led in its totality and with nearly ab- luck. The fishing: songs. are used in a accurac similar way before,setting off for a sal- kis call the god who ereated mon killing. i ol ther ndias re ko S The teaching songs are for the purpose o DI T ol e el st of giving moral instruction. They teach and m t a5 afier the biblicaliflosa. - & Dew Testament, original would never kindness, bravery, endurance and the rest 2 3 S “go thelrs also nus ke read- of the virtue e & was no'land. ' But Ty-koh-mul was 50 thelUrs also s make popular read- of the virtw selves h K et two parts. The sec- ing matter. Moore ta t the ntists the use of Toigar he amnde gdittic danlt Thot ond part, which . This long §tory bY the relics which they had gathered with itiis Da SHEAe the Whols Barki: Atk equa.ly iong as the no means compri much labor and have now preserved in t ool anil Gave ithe ol s SIS Prals all the old ‘lore of the university museum. They are by no s S R agront e WS e B I}-‘lmh-n‘\\lt the Yukisi TReY yncung the same sort of Indlan articles o ik It dedtd bet e e e y left the carth to ilve Wavei AN WOthEr o oy sadiin Thelertic, shopss the regu- e P e s al 1D peavesn Lhe o legends and myths, ,,4ion nd beads and baskets ¢ th g e . e - MAISS was not comple sad, some hu- _ . g £ o 5 =R 5 sz u e nd lakes. He n man inished. It ::::zm svnm(- Neilng S rot promin 1mong them. Th e prete »w his " ast he wedt up from B o B lven torin Do SIS, SIpRMALAS, el 18 dances and gooq 2 pt m, ‘whera. he 18"now there w e ek R tions--head 11‘:»;3, feather adorn story of the P dh heiioncics i ments, decorative bands. . P s The kop kolkut, or feather dre is used il g l‘;"_‘" ‘:m_ ?:x a4 feather dance. It is shuped like an im- time n wall’ asi.the ation Melise cape to be thrown over the shoul- De e ders. The basis of the thing is a strong ire, the sun and ,’“m' recording of D€t ilito which are woven turkey feath- 8 s the moon were each the Songs. Was Very @ fiietejuiininiieiririmtninimit it in the possession of much of a surpri : ITS CUNNING LONG B =- | fterent monsters or o5t soore ani o | QUEER ACTIONS OF BIRDS WHOSE po7d evil pe Coyate Wi - sife, surprise that did H= MIND =“HOWS AGE. after many dan o antirely plense| BIRAINS HAVE BEEN DESTROYED. stiipn: remains in (work that endires and 15 called fammous | i b oventires him. He had never is a very common idea that if the periments on rabbits, dogs, fishes and stil I , order . 1oy v ng after man-his ceased th ba "‘,']"‘"‘;'1 o ey looked a grapho- M brain of an animal is completely de- lower orders have shed L on t that brain, have - A §0od instance of the early death of { ;5 the wor.d ligh phiatio-fn/ e funuet stroyed it will die, or If it lives it re- the obscure phenom i y g Sannusl ScRVIy I8 e in the Evpliasipal il Betargy. ande 15157 mahie i s comatise-condition. AL - - Doni, Witk this have. come very matexials ¥ e st e skiliful i o dently struck him as | T o " istic views. “For if the larger part of bod- S prOmnY. SR AR i 4. 5 HE- mtads Kuidy an undiknified pro- | genious German has cut out some P'EORS” ;. gotions can be shown to be nothing of mé: who have S RS b bk . other improvements ceeding to sing the | brains with care, given the wound time t0 more than simpl " i ed age of life continuing ; oy “; (): )1 th “;ir' i s S songs of his ances- | heal and shown that the birds can run to appropriat ¢ : A7 ST LN e e 0 A atha il world - which ors into that horn. : < grows that the mc of. the: worl® as-long ‘as When he gets o be 45 years old | Ty-koh-mul, the cre- ¥ T ia it however, | &bout, iy, measure a distance, eat, 80 £ (o Ty s really he brain and not of if he can make $6 or $7 a week he is i 55 5 : * | sleep in the dark, wake up with the light if he can make $6 or $7 a week he is lucky, | ator, had left for although he rebelled. e . hanic’s highest skill while twenty rs later, even if he still | him to do. At ‘ast “I aldit come here | 2Nd: in fin€, do. most of the things a . « between the ages of enjoys sound health and faculties, all he | he was transformed to talk .into no | Dhealthy, normal pigeon can do. Only mem- i J lay e A TERF s The Dot weck. In his trade, of | into the = animal horn,” he sald aside. | OTY and the mating impulses are gone. It r“h “explaing why his brain has been : used principally. In | coyote. * T come to teach -ho | 15 Possible to discriminate very neatly WhO . ng or seafaring, or in some other | Literally trans- professors.” | Detween the Teflex acts and'those Involv-: g .., s e K L E continue 10 1aDOX o0, 41006 in which the energy of the mus- | lated, the myth be- But the songs were | ing some use of the memory. Thus a . » s the earning POWEr cjeq js distributed equally over the body, | &ins in this wise: . sung and the rec~ brainless falcon was put in a cage with N of r 40 the muscles do not the physical actlvity does not dwindle as | “All human belings ords have mads |some mice. Every time a mouse moved same f y respor certainly and read- soon, and sometimes in these cases of | did not exist. Ty- them permanent. All | the falcon jumped for it and caught it brain to th fly to the willingness of equal development and use of the muscles | koh-mul on the wa- kinds of chants they | There the act ended. The normal faleon e “ "r‘\’"‘l' thy ndiwork begins the physical belng outlasts the mental, | ter created himself was only water and mist, thus the earth aatat yat'el el Talkomol imk'op,® and 80 are; songs that oc- | eats its mouse. When its brain is gone it fi;”i ;“9 “‘h to fall ¢ apacity. Yet in but these exceptional cases are not those | from a feather In was invisible under the water. Things ex- on to a great length. It 1s fortunate that cur in the course of | pays no more attention to its captured 3. . .og Loeb o O e the cas: 3 it is only after 40 of mechanics in these days of division ot] the beginning. All jsted not.”” The statements from which the. scientists have taken the matter in the legends, songs of | prey as soon as the mouse ceases to move. parative ph of the brain.—Har- that it really begins its best work—the labor.—New York Press. earth was not; there tyig jg deduced run in this fashio ‘Hill hand and put it into shape for us, for the Joy and of sadness, | These and a great varlety of other ex- per's Weekly.