488 MEDICINE-MEN OF THE APACHE. 



dentists, the teeth of the enemies they had killed in battle. 1 Many of 

 the Carib, we are told by a Spanish writer, ostentatiously wear neck 

 laces made of strings of the teeth of the enemies whom they have slain. 2 

 Padre Fray Alonzo Fernandez says of the Carib: &quot;Traen los dientes 

 con los cabellos de los que matarou por collares, como ha/iaii antigua- 

 mente los Scitas.&quot; 3 The people of New Granada &quot;traen al cuello dien 

 tes de los qne matavan.&quot; 4 Picart says that the natives of New Granada 

 and Cumana &quot;portent an col les dents des ennemis qu ils ont massa- 

 crez.&quot; 5 The Spaniards found in the temple of the Itzaes, on the island of 

 Peten, an idol made of &quot;yesso,&quot; which is plaster, and in the head, which 

 was shaped like the sun, were imbedded the teeth of the Castilians whom 

 they had captured and killed.&quot; 



&quot;They strung together the teeth of such of their enemies as they had 

 slain in battle and wore them on their legs and arms as trophies of suc 

 cessful cruelty.&quot; 7 



Stanley says, referring to the natives of the Lower Congo country: 

 &quot;Their necklaces consisted of human, gorilla, and crocodile teeth, in 

 such quantity, in many cases, that little or nothing could be seen of the 

 neck.&quot; 8 



&quot;The necklaces of human teeth which they [Urangi and Eubunga, of 

 the Lower Congo] wore.&quot; 9 Again, &quot;human teeth were popular orna 

 ments for the neck.&quot; 10 When a king dies they [the Wahuma, of the head of 

 the Nile] cut out his lower jaw and preserve it covered with beads. 11 



Schweinfurth 2 speaks of having seen piles of &quot;lower jawbones from 

 which the teeth had been extracted to serve as ornaments for the neck&quot; 

 by the Monlmttoo of Africa. &quot;A slaughtered foe was devoured from 

 actual bloodthirstiness and hatred by the Niam-Nianis of Central 

 Africa. . . . They make no secret of their savage craving, 

 but ostentatiously string the teeth of their victims round their necks, 

 adorning the stakes erected beside their dwellings for the habitation of 

 the trophies with the skulls of the men they have devoured. Human 

 fat is universally sold.&quot; 13 



1 &quot; Traen los dientes al cuello (como sacamuelas) por bravoeldad.&quot; Gomara, Historiade las Indias, 

 p. 201. 



2 &quot;Los Caberres y muchos Caribes, iisan por gala muchns sartas de dieutes y mnelas de gente para 

 dar a eutender que son niuy valientes por los despojos qne alii ostentan Her do sus enemigos que iu:ita- 

 ron. Gmnilla, Orinoco, Madrid. 1741, p. 65. 



3 Padre Fray Alonzo Fernandez, Hi.storia Eclesiastica, Toledo. Kill. p. 17. 

 Ibid., p. 161. 



5 Ceremonies et Continues. Amsterdam. 1735. vol. 6, p. 114. 



8 &quot;Formada la rara como de Sol, con rayosde Naear al rededor, y pertilada de lo mismo; y en la boca 

 embutidos IOM dientes. que quitaroii a los Espaiioles, qne avian mnerto.&quot; Villaguilierre. Hist, de la 

 Conquista de la I rovincia de el Itzn, Madrid. 1701. p. 5UU. (Itza seems to bave been tbe country of the 

 Laeandones.) 



7 Edwards, speaking of the Carib, quoted by Spencer, Desc. Sociology. The same custom is 

 ascribed to the Tupinambi of Iira7.il. Ibid, quoting from Southey. 

 &quot; Through the Dark Continent, vol. 2. p. 280. 

 9 Ibid, p. 288. 



&amp;gt; Ibid., p. 290. 



11 Speke, Source of the Nile. London, 1803, p. 500. 



&quot; Heart of Africa, vol 2, p. 54. 



13 Ibid., vol. 1, p. 285. 



