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MEUICINE-MEX OF THE Al ACHE. 



y comienzan la primeia en la casa de su Chemisi que es su sacerdote 

 principal y elquecuidade la Casa del Fuego.&quot; The Asinai extended 

 as far east as the present city of Ifatchitoches (Nacogdoches). 



Spencer quotes IJernan and Ililhouse to the effect that the poor 

 among the Arawaks of South America (Guiana) have no names because 

 they can not pay the medicine-men. 2 



As a general rule, the medicine-men do not attend to their own fam 

 ilies, neither do they assist in cases of childbirth unless specially 

 needed. To both these rules there are exceptions innumerable. While 

 I was at San Carlos Agency, Surgeon Davis was sent for to help in a 

 case of uterine inertia, and I myself have been asked in the pueblo of 

 Kambe, New Mexico, to give advice in a case of puerperal fever. 



The medicine-men are accused of administering poisons to their 

 enemies. Among the Navajo I was told that they would put finely 

 pounded glass in food. 



MEDICINE-WOMEN. 



There are medicine-women as well as medicine-men among the 

 Apache, with two of whom 1 was personally acquainted. One named 

 &quot; Captain Jack was well advanced in years and physically quite 

 feeble, but bright in intellect and said to be well versed in the lore of 

 her people. She was fond of instructing her grandchil 

 dren, whom she supported, in the prayers and invocations 

 to the gods worshiped by her fathers, and I have several 

 times listened carefully and unobserved to these recitations 

 and determined that the prayers were the same as those 

 which had already been given to myself as those of the 

 tribe. The other was named Tze-go-juni, a Chiricahua, 

 and a woman with a most romantic history. She had 

 passed five years in captivity among the Mexicans in So- 

 nora and had learned to speak Spanish with facility. A 

 mountain lion had severely mangled her in the shoulder 

 and knee, and once she had been struck by lightning; so 

 that whether by reason of superior attainments or by an 

 u hiV anwv appeal to the superstitious reverence of her comrades, she ( 

 used i&amp;gt;.v Aj&amp;gt;a- \vielded considerable influence. These medicine-women 



Wo women&quot;* devote their attention pi-im-ip -illy +^ nhafrtfyiVs^ nml have 



many peculiar stories to__rt4H4e-eou.cerning pre-natal inHu- 

 _lices ami matters of that sort. Tze go-juni wore at her neck the stone 

 amulet, shaped like a spear, which is figured in the illustrations of this 

 paper. The material was the silex from the top of a mountain, taken 

 from a ledge at the foot of a tree which had been struck by lightning. 

 The fact that siliceous rock will emit sparks when struck by another 

 hard body appeals to the reasoning powers of the savage as a proof that 

 the fire must have been originally deposited therein by the bolt of light- 



1 Cruiiieu SeraHca y A]Mwtnlica, Kspiuosa, Mexico, 1746, p. 421. 

 * Dose. Sociology. 



