Motif
Derision song addressed to defeated enemy
derision_song_addressed_to_defeated_enemy
A motif of the Sacred Combat and Ritual Warfare family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
native american great lakes
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Chippewa Music II WOIJDS / I HULL. / FRONT BACK / SCALPS ATTACHED TO HOOP; lines 9321-9495 confidence: high
No. 38 is a scalp song whose words ask whether the Sioux woman is humiliated because her head was cut off; the analysis calls it a song of derision and compares it with No. 14, noting musical similarities and differences.
The scalp song's words taunt the Sioux woman, and the analysis explicitly calls the song a song of derision.
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