474 MEDICINE-MEN OF THE APACHE. 



Chinese. 1 Padre Boscana represents the &quot;puplem&quot; or medicine-men 

 of the Indians of California as making or sketching &quot;a most uncouth 

 and ridiculous figure of an animal on the ground,&quot; and presumably of 

 sands, clays, and other such materials. 2 



HAIR AND WIGS. 



The medicine-men of the Apache were, at least while young, extremely 

 careful of their hair, and I hav^ often seen those who were very prop 

 erly proud of their long and glossy chevelure. Particularly do I recall 

 to mind the &quot; doctor &quot; at San Carlos in 1885, who would never allow 

 his flowing black tresses to be touched. But they do not roach their 

 hair, as I have seen the Pawnee do; they do not add false hair to their 

 own, as I have seen among the Crow of Montana and the, Mohave of the 

 llio Colorado; they do not apply plasters of mud as do their neighbors 

 the Yuma, Cocopa, Mohave and Pima, and in such a manner as to 

 convince spectators that the intent was ceremonial; and they do not 

 use wigs in their dances. Wigs made of black wool may still be found 

 occasionally among the Pueblos, but the Apache do not use them, and 

 there is no reference to such a thing in their myths. 



It is to be understood that these paragraphs are not treating upon 

 the superstitions concerning the human hair, as such, but simply of the 

 employment of wigs, which would seem in former days among some of 



I the tribes of the Southwest to have been made of human hair pre 

 sented by patients who had recovered from sickness or by mourners 

 whose relatives had died. 3 Wigs with masks attached were worn by 

 the Costa Ricans, according to (labb. 4 



Some of the Apache- Yuma men wear long rolls of matted hair behind, 

 which are the thickness of a tiuger, and two feet or more in length, and 

 composed of old hair mixed with that growing on the head, or are in the 

 form of a wig, made of hair that has been cut off when mourning the 

 dead, to be worn on occasions of ceremony. 5 



Observations of the same kind have been made by Speke upon the 

 customs of the people of Africa in his Nile,&quot; concerning the Kidi people 

 at the head of the Nile; by Cook, in Hawkesworth s Voyages, 7 speaking 

 of Tahiti, and by Barcia,&quot; speaking of Greenland. Sir Samuel Baker 

 describes the peculiar wigs worn by the tribes on Lake Albert Nyanza, 



le. p. 567. 



Vol. 2, 11. 1911. 



Ensuyo Cronologico, ]&amp;gt;. 139. 



