nents. ‘The presence of non-Kamsaé names among the 
Sibundoy is occasioned by their frequent acquisition of 
plant materials through natives speaking one of the Que- 
chuan languages. Sometimes the drug is accorded a 
position of preeminence with the Spanish epithet e/ 
remedio (‘the remedy’), a term employed even when 
speaking Kamsa. The names sacawdska ‘woodland liana’ 
and cagrupangs ‘garden leaf’ imply that B. Caapi is 
considered wild, while B. Rusbyana is thought of as 
domesticated, or at least ruderal. As yet, however, we 
have no botanical evidence to support such an interpre- 
tation. A Siona Indian in the nearby lowlands says, 
‘*The plant is cultivated and lasts forever.” (2/a). He 
seems to refer to the liana the bark of which is employed, 
B.Caapi. The widespread term ayawdska, or ayahuasca, 
seems especially pertinent in regard to Naranjo’s finding 
(25) that many of his harmaline-treated subjects in Chile 
experienced feelings of death and of the separation of 
soul and body. 
VItl 
The botanical identities of the crude drugs bidwa and 
cagrupynga, from which biawti is prepared, are based 
upon seven sterile and three partly fertile specimens from 
the adjacent eastern lowlands, whence the Sibundoy ob- 
tain the plant materials. Bristol 759 (bidwa) from the 
garden of Salvador Chindoy in the Valley of Sibundoy 
represents Banisteriopsis Caapi (Spruce ex Griseb.) 
Mort. Chindoy planted it there from a cutting that he 
obtained near Mocoa about ten years ago, but he will be 
unable to use it for biawtt for years to come because it 
grows slowly in the cool climate of the high valley. 
Bristol 325-A7 (cagrupangoa) consists of four leaves of B. 
Rusbyana (Ndz.) Mort. brought by the same medicine- 
man from the same area. 
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