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2 badger's feet. 



1 small modern Hopi feed bowl. 

 1 lot of dried juniper berries. 

 1 lot of dried and chopped up internal 

 organs, unidentified. 



1 lot of friable sandstone. 



2 lots of bone. 



1 large blue-glass marble. 



8 lots of herbs and seeds. 



1 lot of indigo. 



1 lot of vegetal mold. 



1 stemless clay pipe. 



8 buckskin bags, containing paints, 



earths, etc. 

 10 small lots of Indian corn. 

 1 cone of stalagmite. 



2 quartz pebbles. 



1 fossil oyster. 



2 wristlets of eagle and hawk talons. 



56 small buckskin bags, containing red, 

 blue, and black mineral paints; white 

 and yellow earth; roots and herbs; 

 along with numerous vegetal pow- 

 ders, unidentified; pieces of abalone 

 shell; 1 piece of cjuartz; 1 quartz crys- 

 tal; 1 lot of carbonated copper; 1 piece 

 of specular hematite; a glass pendant 

 from a lamp; gnarled vegetal stems; 

 1 notched stick; and a pair of wide cop- 

 per tweezers. 



1 buckskin bag, resembling the Apache 

 "split" l>ags. 



According to many indications the Navaho practise but little sur- 

 gery. The resident traders report that Navaho medicine-men occa- 

 sionally cut into the skin of a sick person and suck the wound; 

 but this is done to make the patient believe that his disease, or its 

 evil principle, is really being extracted. According to information 

 obtained at Chaco, cases have been known where abscesses were cut 

 open by medicine-men and the pus was sucked out. 



The Hopi use numerous herbs and other objects as remedies, but 

 most of these seem to be employed fetishistically or from some 

 fancied resemblance to the disease or the diseased organ.'* Thus the 

 yayawimkia squirts ashes or soot, products of fire, on inflamed skin; 

 he also cauterizes with a piece of live coal. Clematis and Cowania, 

 because of their hair-like fibers, are used for restoration of the hair 

 (Hough); a decoction of the many-spined thistle is given in dry 

 pharyngitis, in which the patient feels as if he had a thistle in the 

 throat; a twist of a piece of wood in the hands of the medicine-man 

 cures "twists" of the body (convulsions); the skin of a weasel, 

 which glides readily through a small hole, and a conch shell, whose 

 inhabitant comes out easily, kept in the room of a womai' to be con- 

 fined, are charms for easy labor. Some of the teas seem to be used 

 with more reason, but in view of the motives underlying the em- 

 ployment of other "remedies," it is difficult not to feel suspicious 

 even here. 



At some of their ceremonies the Hopi drink or rub themselves with 

 mixtures which are supposed to be "good medicine," preventive of all 

 illness; this through their magical power. The washing by the 

 women of their limbs with urine belongs very probably to the same 

 category. 



After the Snake dance the participants, who have that day abstained 

 from food, drink "for purification" a decoction made of a number 



oSee J. W. Fewkes's A Contribution to Ethnobotany, American Anthropologist, ix, no. 1, Jan., 1896, 

 15-21, and W. Uougli, Environmental Interrelations in Arizona, ibid., xi, no. 5, May, 1898, 133-155. 



