our sleeping mats. I felt nothing unusual. Presently, I 
asked the medicine-man, “‘Did you see anything last 
night?’* and he gave three answers. 
First: he had seen that my parents in the United 
States were disturbed over my long absence (fifteen 
months) and were anxious for me to return home. They 
felt that I was being very irresponsible in neglecting 
them forso long. Second: he informed us that nothing 
could be done to save the stunted child. Some time ago 
microbios had entered the body between the toes and had 
crept up through the legs into the torso and now suffused 
the whole body except for the heart. As soon as they 
reached the heart —he repeated this—the infant would 
die. Third: the unusual Datura was identified as sala- 
main boracéra, a small tree cultivated by Chindoy and 
used for various medicinal and occasionally narcotic pur- 
poses. He would plant the cuttings in his garden, he 
said, and use the leaves as he does those of the salaman 
boracéra. 
Here ends this instance of the use of biawt by the 
Sibundoy, but several comments on its results may be 
worthwhile. 
XII 
The observation of my parents’ anxiety over my long 
absence may imply that Chindoy was disturbed, even 
during normal consciousness, by what he sensed as care- 
less irresponsibility on my part. Certainly among the 
Sibundoy, filial responsibilities are greater than in Ameri- 
can society. It appears likely that valuable insight on 
Sibundoy cultural values could be gained from an analy- 
sis of the content of natives’ psychic experiences during 
biawu intoxication. 
Of greater interest is the medicine-man’s finding that 
nothing could save his patient from approaching death, 
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