SACKED POWDER. 513 



I once visited it witli three other persons and an Indian doctor, who carried with 

 him live small bags, each containing some vegetable or mineral substance, all differing 

 in color. At the spring each bag was opened and a small quantity of its contents was 

 put into the right hand of each person present. Each visitor, in succession, was then 

 required to kneel down by the spring side, to place his closed hand in the water up 

 to his elbow, and after a brief interval to open his hand and let Call its contents 

 into the spring. The hand was then slowly withdrawn and each one was then per 

 mitted to drink and retire. 



Columbus iu his fourth voyage touched the mainland, going down 

 near Brazil, lie says: 



In Cariuy and the neighboring country there are great enchanters of a very fearful 

 character. They would have given the world to prevent my remaining there an hour. 

 When 1 arrived they sent me immediately two girls very showily dressed; the eld 

 est could not be more than eleven years of age and the other seven, and both exhib 

 ited so much immodesty that more could not be expected from public women. They 

 carried concealed about them a magic powder. - 



The expedition of La Salle noticed, among the Indians on the Missis 

 sippi, the Natchez, and others, &quot;todos los dias, qne se detuvieren en aqueJ 

 Pueblo, ponia la Cacica, oncima tie la Sepultura de Marie fi. e., a French 

 man who had been drowned], una Cestilla llcna de Kspigas de Maiz, 

 tostado.&quot; :l 



&quot;He showed me, as a special favor, that which give him his power 

 a bag with some reddish powder in it. He allowed me to handle it and 

 smell this mysterious stuff , and pointed out two little dolls or images, 

 which, he said, gave him authority over the souls of others; it was for 

 their support that flour and water were placed in small birch-rind 

 saucers in front. 4 



On page 2S(i, narrative of the Jeannette Arctic, expedition, Dr. New- 

 comb says : &quot; One day, soon after Xew Year s, 1 was out walking with one 

 of the Indians. Noticing the new moon, he stopped, faced it, and, 

 blowing out his breath, he spoke to it, invoking success in hunting. The 

 moon, he said, was Tyunne, or ruler of deers, bears, seals, and walrus.&quot; 

 The ceremony herein described 1 have no doubt was analogous in 

 every respect to hoddentin-tlirowing. As the Indians mentioned were 

 undoubtedly Tinueh, my surmise seems all the more reasonable. 5 



Tanner relates that among the Ojibwa the two best hunters of the 

 band had &quot;each a little leather sack of medicine, consisting of certain 

 roots pounded tine and mixed with red paint, to be applied to the little 

 images or figures of the animals we wish to kill.&quot; 6 



&quot;In the parish of Walsiugham, in Surrey, there is or was a custom 

 which seems to refer to the rites performed in honor ot Pomona. Early 

 in the spring the boys go round to the several orchards in the parish 



1 Schoolcraft, I ml. Tribes, vol. 4, ]&amp;gt;. 213. 



- Columbus Letters, in Hakluyt Sor. Works. London, 1847. vol 2, ]&amp;gt;. 192. 



:! liarria, Ensayo Oonolo^iro, p. 279. 



4 The medicine-men of the Swampy Crees, a* described in Bishop of Rupert s I. .mi! works, quoted 

 by Henry Youle Hind, Canadian Exploring Expedition, vol. 1, p. 113. 



5 Personal notes, November 22, 1885, at Baker s ranch, summit of the Sierra Ancha. Arizona. 

 G Tanner s Narrative, p. 174. 



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