484 MEDICINE-MEN OF THE APACHE. 



these ghastly relics for use in their dances. Sometimes the warriors 

 will become so excited that they will break off and swallow a linger. 1 



Tanner says of the Ojibwa: &quot;Sometimes they use sacks of human 

 skin to contain their medicines, and they fancy that something is thus 

 added to their efficacy.&quot; 2 



Of the savages of Virginia we read: &quot;Mais d antres portent pour 

 plus glorieuse parure une main seiche de qnelqii un de leurs ennemis. : 



Of the Algonkin we read: &quot;II yen a qui out une partie du bras et 

 la main de quelque Hiroquois qu ils out tue; cela est si bien vuidee que 

 les ongles restent toutes entieres.&quot; 4 



The Mohawk &quot;place their foe against a tree or stake and first 

 tear all the nails from his fingers and run them on a string, which they 

 wear the same as we do gold chains. It is considered to the honor of 

 any chief who has vanquished or overcome his enemies if he bite off or 

 cut off some of their members, as whole fingers.&quot; 5 



The Ceuis (Asinai) of Texas, were seen by La Salle s expedition in 

 1687-1690, torturing a captive squaw. &quot;They then tore out her hair, 

 and cut off her fingers.&quot; 6 



In volume 2 of Kingsborough s Mexican Antiquities, in the plates of 

 the Vatican manuscript, is to be seen a representation of an Aztec priest 

 or other dignitary holding out in his hands two human arms. In plate 

 76 of the same is a priest ottering up a human sacrifice, the virile member 

 of the victim cut off . 



Teoyamaqui, the wife of Huitzlipochtli, the Aztec god of war, was 

 depicted with a necklace of human hands. 7 Squier also says that 

 Darga or Kali, the Hindu goddess, who corresponds very closely to her, 

 was represented with &quot; a necklace of skulls&quot; and &quot; a girdle of dissevered 

 human hands.&quot; 



The Hindu goddess Kali was decorated with a necklace of human 

 skulls. 8 In the Propaganda collection, given in Kingsborough, 9 are to 

 be seen human arms and legs. 



&quot; On the death of any of the great officers of state, the finger bones 

 and hair are also preserved; or if they have died shaven, as sometimes 

 occurs, a bit of their mbtigfi dress will be preserved in place of the hair.&quot; ln 

 &quot;Their families guard their tombs. 11 



The principal war fetiches of Uganda &quot;consist of dead lizards, bits, 



Kohl. ICitchi-giimi, |&amp;gt;1 . 1145, :I40. 



2 Tanner s Narrative, 1&amp;gt;. 172. 



i John ill- Lact, lib. 3, cap. 18, p. !)0, quoting Capt. John Smith. 



Le Jt-nnu in Jesuit Relations. 163:1, vol.1, Quebec, 1858. 



Third Voyage of David Peter De Vries to New Amsterdam, in Trans. N. Y&quot;. Hist. Sue., vol. 3, p. 91. 



harlevoix. New France. New York, 18C, vol.4. ]). 105. 



7 Squier, Serpent Symbol, p. 197. 



&quot;Colt-man. Mythology of the Hindus, London, 1832, p. 63. 



Vol. 3. 



Speke, Soiin-i- of the Nile. London. 1803, p. 000. 



&quot; Ibid. 



