MISCELLANEOUS USES 



found favor. The ingredients of the ''smoke" were 

 first thoroughly dried either in the sun or over a 

 fire, and then rubbed and crunil)led between the 

 palms of the hands — whence the French engages' 

 name, hois roiile, applied to such smoking material. 

 Though a portion of tobacco was usual in the make- 

 up, it frequently was omitted — one or more of the 

 non-narcotics being consumed alone. 



When our attention is once turned to utilizing 

 what is growing freely around us, an almost 

 exhaustless subject of remarkable fascination has 

 been started ; and the folk of simple habits and gifted 

 with some ingenuity find Flora a ministrant goddess 

 of very varied gifts. There is almost nothing we 

 can ask of her that she cannot make some sort of 

 response to. Lovers of the curious maj^ have napkin 

 rings or candle-sticks from sections of the reticulated 

 wooden skeleton of the savage Cholla Cactus; com- 

 bination brushes for sweeping the floor or brushing 

 the hair (according to the end used) from certain 

 western grasses;^ combs of pine-cones; buttons of 

 acorn-cups; tooth-brushes of the Flowering Dog- 



8 One, given me by a Zufii Indian, is a simple bunch of MuJtIcn- 

 hergia jninfjens, Thurl)., tied about with a string, the butt-end 

 charred to serve for tlic liairbrush, the otlier doing duly as a 

 whisk. Harrington states tliat among the Tewa of New Mexico and 

 Arizona, the pUint used for this double purpose is the Mesquite- 

 grass {Boutcloua curtipcndula, Torr.). 



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