wanted to have its disease diagnosed and cured. The child 
was said to be thirteen months old, but it was obviously 
stunted. Several native remedies had been tried by the 
parents to no avail during the past few months. Second: 
Chindoy wanted to examine some branches of a peculiar 
boracéra (Datura candida( Pers.) Saff.) closely resembling 
several of the more important medicinal plants known 
to him. I had located the small tree in the garden of an 
older, well known Sibundoy along a much frequented 
trail, but it had never been seen by Chindoy who rarely 
had occasion to travel that section of the trail. As he had 
said that it would ke very unwise for him to inspect the 
other man’s tree, I had brought several branches from it. 
Intoxicated with dbiavit, he would ‘‘examine’’ the 
branches to determine whether the plant was ‘‘poison 
or remedy, and, if not a poison, what it would be good 
for and how it should be used’’. 
The medicine-man, the young couple and I awoke at 
about 1:30 A.M. The medicine-man adorned himself 
for the ceremonial preparation of the diawt with a neck- 
lace of large puma canine-teeth, a great many small- 
beaded necklaces of several colors, two longer necklaces 
of palm fruit rattles, a chain necklace with a crucifix, two 
long, tightly wound wrist cords, two red parrot tail 
feathers in his pierced ear lobes, and a narrow crown with 
erect, red and blue parrot tail feathers at the rear and a 
long train of green parrot tail feathers and black-yellow- 
red toucan tails hanging behind (see Plate XVIII). Ex- 
cepting for the multicolored porcelain bead necklaces, all 
these adornments are used by Chindoy exclusively for 
practicing medicine while influenced by drawn. He ac- 
quired all but the beads and crucifix in the eastern low- 
lands among the Mocoa and Ingano who fashioned them 
from locally available materials and who use them for 
similar purposes. 
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