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MEDICINE-MEN OF THE APACHE. 



i lo. 432. The scratch stick ami driukiug reed. 



Water was carried in reeds by the Dyaks of Borneo, according to 

 Bouk. 1 The manner in which the natives of the New Hebrides and 

 other islands of the South Pacific Ocean carry water in bamboo joints 

 recalls the Zufii method of preserving the sacred water of the ocean in 

 hollow reeds. 2 



Mr. F. H. Gushing shows that 

 u so far as language indicates the 

 character of the earliest water 

 vessels which to any extent met 

 the requirements of the Zufii an 

 cestry, they were tubes of wood 

 or sections of canes.&quot; a Long af 

 ter these reeds had disappeared 

 from common use, the priests still 

 persisted in their use for carry 

 ing the water for the sacred cer 

 emonies. The mother of the king 

 of Uganda gave to Speke &quot;a 

 beautifully-worked pombe suck 

 ing-pipe.&quot; 4 For ordinary purposes these people have &quot;drinking gourds.&quot; 

 lu Ujiji, Cameron saw an old chief sucking pombe, the native beer, 

 through a reed; 5 and, later on in his narrative, we learn that the reed 

 is generally used for the purposes of drinking. &quot;The Malabars reck 

 oned it insolent to touch the vessel with their lips when drinking.&quot; 6 

 They made use of vessels with a spout, which were no more and no 

 less than the small hollow-handled soup ladles of the Zulu and Tusa- 

 yan, through which they sipped their hot broth. 



In an ancient grave excavated not far from Salem, Massachusetts, in 

 1873, were found five skeletons, one of which was supposed to be that 

 of the chief Nanephasemet, who was killed in 1G05 or 160C. He was 

 the king of Namkeak. On the breast of this skeleton were discovered 

 &quot; several small copper tubes . . . from 4 to 8 inches in length, and 

 from one-eighth to one-fourth of an inch in diameter, made of copper 

 rolled up, with the edges lapped.&quot; 7 



Alarcon relates that the tribes seen on the Eio Colorado by him in 

 1541, wore on one arm &quot;certain small pipes of cane.&quot; But the object 

 or purpose of wearing these is not indicated.&quot; 



The natives of the Friendly Islands carried in their ears little cylin 

 ders of reed, although we learn that these were &quot;filled with a red solid 



Head- Hunters of Borneo, London, 1881, p. 139. 



! See, for the New Hebrides, Forster, Voyage Bound the World, vol. 2. p. 255. 



Report of the Bureau of Ethnology. 1882- 83, p. 482. 



Speke, Source of the Nile, London, 1863, pp. 306, 310. 



Cameron, Across Africa, London, 1877, vol. 1, p. 276. 



De Gama s Discovery of the East Indies, in Knox, Voyages. London. 1767, vol, 2, p. 324. 



7 Andrew K. Oher, in the Salem Gazette, Salem, Mass. 



-Hakluyt, Voyages, vol. 3, p. 508; also, Teruaux-Compans, Voy., vol. 9. pp. 307,308. 



