of Ing. Weitlaner, have given us permission to use their 
notes and photographs for this article. We publish for 
the first time a map showing the villages in Oaxaca where 
they have found the Jpomoea seeds in use, 2 group of 
seven Zapotec villages visited by Don Tomis, and also 
six Villages in the Chatino country visited at my express 
request by ‘Chico’ Ortega in 1962, as we had a suspicion 
that the black seed was used in that linguistic area.” The 
area of diffusion is certainly far wider than these villages, 
but this is a start. 
o ; CHATINO ZAPOTEC 
Mexico City A-Santiago Yaitepec 1—San Bartolo Yautepec 
B-—Santa Maria Temaxcaltepec 2—San Carlo Yautepec 
c—Teotepec 3—Santa Catarina Quieri 
D—Nopala 4—Santa Cruz Ozolotepec 
9 MILES. 49 E—Cuixtla 5—San Andrés Lovene 
—— a) F—Tiltepec 6—Roala 
San José—Ozolotepec 
PAC 
The black seeds are called variously in the Zapotec 
country : badoh negro seems to be the prevalent name. 
But in the Zapotec dialect spoken in San Bartolo Yaute- 
pec they are called /a’qja shnash, ‘seed of the Virgen’. 
In this town Francisco Jiménez (‘Chico Bartolo’) took 
aseries of photographs in the course of a routine vigil. 
A relative of his, Paula Jiménez, is a curandera, and she 
officiated, and also dictated an account of the steps taken 
in the rite. We give a paraphrase of what she said. 
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