the members of the Red Bean Dance from the dangers 
of war and bringing them luck in all enterprises, especially 
in horse racing and formerly in the buffalo hunt. 
The beans were once widely used as adulterants for 
the aleoholic agave-brandy or mescal, making the drink 
more intoxicating (74). This use of the seeds is the rea- 
son for the name mescal bean which has been extended 
and wrongly applied to the dried heads of Lophophora 
Williamsn. Although the term, thus misapplied, has ac- 
quired wide usage in anthropological literature, it is never 
correctly employed to designate peyote buttons. 
Mescal-beans are also called coral beans and fryolillo; 
the Mexican name is to/eselo. 
The peyote ceremony ends at about six o’clock in the 
morning, when a dawn feast is brought into the tepee by 
the wife or sister of the leader. This consists of bread, 
parched corn, meat, and sliced canned fruits; sometimes 
‘randy is added. The fruit is purchased at nearby stores 
and is the ordinary ‘‘fruit salad’’ used so widely in this 
country. The participants have little hesitation in using 
commercial preparations in the meeting, although, in 
general, plants and preparations rooted in past tradition 
still claim precedent. The tobacco is always the same 
commercial brand, but the cigarette papers supplied with 
the tobacco are discarded in favor of the more traditional 
leaf wrappings. 
With the end of the dawn feast, the ceremony comes 
to a close. ‘The members lounge about until noon, when 
a second and much larger feast is prepared by the host. 
This is not a part of the ceremony itself, and the menu 
varies. Meat is usually the most important food at the 
noon meal. 
IV. Importance of Plants to the Ceremony. 
The underlying causes of the rapid spread and tenacity 
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