170 Customs of the Coyotero Apaches. [ ZOE 
Chenopodium furnish the greater portion, the squaws gathering large 
basketsful daily in the season. At present they use cooking vessels 
obtained from the whites, but formerly the vegetables were put into 
_ baskets with sufficient water to cover them, and cooked by dropping 
hot rocks (which were handled with wooden tongs) intothem. When 
the cooking is nearly finished, if they have any dried agave root, a 
portion is soaked, beaten up and added to the greens. It isa sweet, 
not unpleasant addition, better than some of our condiments. Salt 
is added to all green vegetables, but they are never cooked with 
meat. Cabbage is eaten now more or less, but when the Apaches 
first became associated with whites they greatly disliked it and 
would hold their noses in passing a place where it was being 
cooked. 
The Coyoteros are exceedingly fond of “ Tizwin,’’ a fermented 
drink made from sprouted corn. It tastes and looks like yeast, but 
contains sufficient alcohol to intoxicate Indians, when drunk in large 
quantities, though a white man, even if he could be induced to take 
it, would probably find it very mild. The use of this drink is dis- 
couraged by the government, but the Indians continue to prepare 
it, not being able to see why, if whisky is good fot the white man, 
their beloved “ Tizwin” should not be as good for them. 
The tobacco formerly used by the tribe was made. from a native 
species and called “Natoe.’’ It is not now used except by some 
old men in emergencies, the ordinary article of commerce being 
obtained from the traders. T hey have never used pipes, but smoke 
cigarettes, using formerly for covering, the inner husks of corn, 
though now cigarette paper is bought from the traders for the pur- 
pose. 
They are fond of all sorts of games, though foot-ball, which is a 
favorite diversion of so many of the surrounding tribes, is not played 
among them. 
“ Shinney’’ is played with a ball of hard wood and a hooked stick, 
which is made by putting the end of a green branch of ash or scrub 
oak into the fire, until it becomes soft enough to bend into a half 
circle. It is then tied in this position and left to dry. Oe 
Apache billiards or “ Pole game,” called by them ‘‘ Najuse,”’ is 
played with two poles fourteen feet long, each with nine circles cut 
near the end held in the hand, and a hoop about eight inches in 
-diameter with a string across the center with six marks or cords 
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