5GO MEUICINE-MEN OF THK APACHE. 



Captain Cook found that the men of the tribes .seen in Australia 

 wore &quot; bracelets of small cord, wound two or three times about the 

 upper part of their arm. 1 



&quot; Whilst their [the Congo natives ] children are young , these people 

 bind them about with certain superstitions cords made by the wizards, 

 who, likewise, teach them to utter a kind of spell while they are bind 

 ing them.&quot; 2 Father Merolla adds that sometimes as many as four of 

 these cords are worn. 



Bosnian remarks upon the negroes of the Gold Coast as follows: &quot;The 

 child is no sooner born than the priest (here called Feticheer or Consoe) 

 is sent for, who binds a parcel of ropes and coral and other trash about 

 the head, body, arms, and legs of the infant; after ^hidi he exorcises, 

 according to their accustomed manner, by which they believe it is 

 armed against all sickness and ill accidents.&quot; :l 



In the picture of a native of Uzinza, Speke shows us a man wearing 

 a cord from the right shoulder to the left hip. 1 



In the picture of Lunga Mandi s son, in Cameron s Across Africa, 5 

 that young chief is represented as wearing a cord across his body from 

 his right shoulder to the left side. 



On the Lower Congo, at Stanley Pool, Stanley met a young chief: 

 &quot; From his shoulders depended a long cloth of check pattern, while over 

 one shoulder was a belt, to which was attached a queer medley of small 

 gourds containing snuff and various charms, which he (-ailed his Inkisi.&quot; 15 

 This no doubt was a medicine cord. &quot;According to the custom, which 

 seems to belong to all Africa, as a sign of grief the Dinka wear a cord 

 round the u eck.&quot; 7 &quot; The Mateb, or baptismal cord, is tie rigueur, and 

 worn when nothing else is. It formed the only clothing of the young at 

 Serarnba, but was frequently added to with amulets, sure safeguards 

 against sorcery.&quot; 8 The Abyssinian Christians wear a blue cord as a sign 

 of having been baptized, and &quot;baptism and the blue cord are, in the 

 Abyssinian mind, inseparable.&quot; !1 &quot;The cord, 10 or mateb, without which 

 nobody can be really said in Abyssinia to be respectable.&quot;&quot; It further 

 resembles the Apache medicine cord, inasmuch as it is &quot;a blue cord 

 around the neck.&quot; 2 The baptismal cords are made of &quot;blue floss silk.&quot; 13 



THK MAGIC WIND KNOTTED CORDS OF THE LAPPS AND OTHE118. 



&quot;The navigators of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries have 

 related many wonderful stories about the magic of the Pinna or Finno 



1 Hawkesworlh, Voyages, vol. 3, p. 229. 



2 Voyage to Congo, in Pinkertou s Voyages, vol. 16, p. 237. 

 Pinkerton, Voyages, vol. 16, p. 388. 



Speke, Source of the Nile, London, 1863, p. 125. 



&quot;London, 1877. vol. 2, p. 131. 



l: Stanley, Through the Dark Continent, vol. 2, p. 330. 



Schweinfurth, Heart of Africa, London, 1873, vol. 1, p. 164. 



&quot; Winstauley,,Aby88inia, vol. 2, p. 68. 



9 This cord is worn about the neck. Ibid., p. 257. 

 10 Ibid., vol. 1, p. 235. 

 &quot;Ibid., vol.2, p. i:. 

 &quot;Ibid, p. 165. 

 &quot;Ibid, p. 292. 



