BOVKKF..I HODDENTIN. f)01 



tion,&quot; in all their dealings with the supernatural. No Apache would, 

 if it could be avoided, go on the warpath without a bag of this precious 

 powder somewhere upon his person, generally, as 1 have said, attached 

 to his ammunition belt. Whenever one was wounded, hurt, or taken 

 sick while on a scout, the medicine-man of the party would walk in 

 front of the horse or mule ridden by the patient and scatter at intervals 

 little pinches of hoddentin, that his path might be made easier. As 

 was said to me : When we Apache go on the warpath, hunt, or plant, 

 we always throw alimcTTofhoddentin to the sun, saying with tlie 

 favor of the sun, or permission of the sun. 1 am going out to fight, 

 ftlffifpor plant, as the case may be, and I want the sun to help me. &quot; 



I have noticed that the Apache, when worn out_with inarching, put 

 a pinch of hoddentiiMtn their tongues as a restorative. 

 ~~ a Hodjliiiitiii-is listen Ip^sic.k peophxas a Jiemedy.&quot; 



tr Before starting out on the warpath, they take a pinch of hoddentiu, 

 throw it to the sun, and also put a pinch on their tongues and one on 

 the crown of the head. . . . When they return, they hold a 

 dance, and on the morning of that day throw pinches of hoddentin to 

 the rising sun, and then to the east, south, west, and north, to the four 

 winds.&quot; 2 



I am unable to assert that hoddentin is used in any way at the 

 birth of a child ; but 1 know that as late as 188G there was not a babe 

 upon the San Carlos reservation, no matter how tender its age, that did 

 not have a small bag of hoddentin attached to its neck or dangling 

 from its cradle. Neither can I assert anything about its use at time of . 



marriage, because, among the Apache, marriage is by purchase, and 

 attended with little, if any, ceremony. But when an Apache girl at 

 tains the age of puberty, among other ceremonies performed upon her, 

 they throw hoddentin to the sun and strew it about her and drop on 

 her head flour of the pifioii, which flour is called by the Chiricahua 

 Apache &quot; nostchi,&quot; and by the Sierra Blanca Apache &quot;ope.&quot; 3 



&quot; Upon attaining the age of puberty, girls fast one, whole day, pray, 

 and throw hoddentin to the sun.&quot; 4 When an Apache dies, if a medi 

 cine-man be near, hoddentin is sprinkled upon the corpse. The Apache 

 buried in the clefts of rocks, but the Apache-Mohave cremated. &quot; Be 

 fore lighting the fire the medicine-men of the Apache-Mohave put hod 

 dentin on the dead person s breast in the form of a cross, on the fore 

 head, shoulders, and scattered a little about.&quot; 5 



The very first thing an Apache does in the morning is to blow a little 

 pinch of hoddentin to the dawn. The Apache worship both dawn 

 and rlarkness, as well as the sun, moon, and several of the planets. 



1 Information of T/.e-go-juni. 

 Information of Concept-ion. 



*Sce notes, a few paj;e8 farther on, from Kohl; also th:*^e from Godfrey Higgins. Tin* word &quot;ope&quot; 

 suggests the name the Tusayan have for themselves, &amp;lt; &amp;gt;i&amp;gt;i, or Opika, &quot; hread people.&quot; 

 4 Infnrmation of Tze-go-.juni. 

 Hnforinatiuii of Mike I .urns. 



