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1 obtained accounts of the treatment given for some 137 different dis- 

 eases and ailments. These accounts were obtained, as was all the work 

 done, in California Spanish text along with all the Indian that she 

 could recall. The memory of the cures and kindnesses extended to 



Fig. 171. — "Abulias" or needles, the divining rods, carried 

 by members of Doria Ascension's family when we went on 

 our expeditions to visit various Indian places. Used for 

 locating minerals and buried treasures. (Photograph by 

 J. P. Harrington.) 



the sick by this poor woman will long survive in the families of those 

 who were benefited. 



Other material obtained consisted of Indian myths, Spanish tales, 

 voluminous and unique material on early Indians and the lore and his- 

 tory of the Mission, and accounts of artifacts made. A long list of 

 plants with scientific identifications is closely related to the medicine 



