BOI-RKK.] HAIR AXI) WIGS Ml DHEADS. 475 



formed of the owner s hair anil contribution a from all sources plastered 

 with t-lay into a stiff mass. 1 



Melehior Diaz reported that the people of Cibola u eleven t dans leurs 

 inaisons dcs aiiimaux veins, grands comine des chiens d Espagne. Us 

 les tondent, ils en font des perruques de conlenrs.&quot; This report was 

 sent by the Viceroy Mendozajto the Emperor Charles V. Exactly what 

 these domesticated animals were, it would be hard to say; they may 

 possibly have been Rocky Mountain sheep, 2 though Mr. Cashing, who 

 has studied the question somewhat extensively, is of the opinion that 

 they may have been a variety of the llama. 



The Assinaboine used to wear false hair, and also had the custom of 

 dividing their hair into &quot;joints&quot; of an inch or more, marked by a sort 

 of paste of red earth and glue; 3 The Mandan did the same. 4 In this 

 they both resemble the Mohave of the Rio Colorado. &quot; The Algonquins 

 believed also in a malignant Manitou. * * * She wore a robe made 

 of the hair of her victims, for she was the cause of death.&quot; 5 



The Apache, until within the last twenty years, plucked out the eye-^ 

 lashes and often the eyebrows, but only a few of them still persist inj 

 the practice. Kane says that the Winnebagoes &quot;have the custom of 

 pulling out their eyebrows.&quot; 6 Herrera says that among the signs by 

 which the Tlascaltecs recognized their gods when they saw them in 

 visions, were &quot;vianle sin cejas, i sin pestanas.&quot; 7 



MUDIIEADS. 



Reference has been made to a ceremonial plastering of mud upon the 

 heads of Indians. When General Crook was returning from his expe 

 dition into the Sierra Madre, Mexico, in 1883, in which expedition a few 

 of the enemy had been killed, the scouts xipon reaching the San Ber 

 nardino River made a free use of the sweat bath, with much singing 

 and other formulas, the whole being part of the lustration which all 

 warriors must undergo as soon as possible after being engaged in battle. 

 The Apache proper did not apply mud to their heads, but the Apache- 

 Yuma did. 



Capt. Grossman, V. S. Army,&quot; says of the Pima method of purifi 

 cation after killing an Apache, that the isolation of the warrior lasts 

 for sixteen days, during which period, no one speaks to him, not even 

 the old woman who brings him his food. The first day he touches 

 neither food nor drink, and he eats sparingly for the whole time, touch- 



1 For the Shamans of Kodiak, see, Lisiansky, Voyage. London, 1814, p. 208; for the Mexicans. Padre 

 Jose Acosta, Paris. 1600, rap. 26, p. 256; Society Inlands, Malte-Brun, Univ. Geography, vol. 3, lib. 58, p. 

 634, lioston, 1825. Sir Samuel Baker, The Alhert Nyanza, vol. 1, p. 211. 



2 Ternanx-Couipaus, vol. 9, p. 94. 



3 Catlin, Xortli American Indians, London. !H4r&amp;gt;. \ n] 1. p. f&amp;gt;5. 



4 Ibid., p. 95. 



fi Parkman, Jesuits in Xortli America, p i\xxiv. 



6 Wanderings of an Artist in Xorth America, p. 40. 



7 PCI . 2, lib. 6, p. 161. 



8 Smithsonian Report for 1871. 



