54 ETHNOBOTANY OF THE ZUNI INDIANS [eth. an.n. 30 



theurgist unbinds the wounds and puffs smoke from a corn-husk 

 cigarette filled -with native tobacco, a'Tia {Nicotiana attenuatalorr.) , 

 well over the body. 



During the period of treatment of a male patient he must not look 

 on the face of a woman who is nourishuig an infant, otherwise "his 

 poisoned hmb would swell and he would surely die within four days." 

 He is isolated during his Olness, seeing only his doctor and such mem- 

 bers of his family as do not have infants. The treatment is repeated 

 every day until all danger is past. Usually by the fifth day the 

 patient has recovered, in which event, on the morning of the fifth 

 day his head is washed with yucca suds by a woman of the fraternity 

 to which the officiating theurgist belongs. The theurgist prays for 

 the patient: "May your heart be good, that you mny foUow the 

 straight road of the Sun Father. May your road of life be long, 

 that you may not die, but sleep to awake m KoTuwala'wa" (Abiding 

 Place of the Council of the Gods).^ Placing his mi'li- to the lips 

 of the patient, the theurgist continues, "Inhale the sacred breath 

 of life." 



A man was once bitten in the foot by a rattlesnake early in the 

 mornmg at Ojo Caliente, one of the farming districts, fifteen miles 

 southwest of Zuiii Pueblo. Having no medicine at' hand, he was 

 compelled to walk to Zuni before receiving treatment. On reachmg 

 the village, at noon, his leg was swoUen to the thigh. A theurgist 

 attended him at once, but he died in great agony before night. This 

 is the only death from rattlesnake bite known to the Zuiii for more 

 than fifty years. 



Hoffmanseggia jamesii Torr. CASsiACE.i;. Senna family. 



Called by Mexicans camote de raton. 



The entu-e plant is soaked in a large bowl of cold water over night 

 and the infusion given to sheep to drink that they may be prolific. 

 The Zuni have implicit confidence m this use of the plant. 



Hy7nenopappus filifolius Nutt. Carduace^. Thistle family. 

 Ea'uheyawe, 'leaf cotton-wool' {ha<ha'li, leaf; u'heyawe [pi.], 

 cotton-wool, in allusion to cotton on many stems. Cotton 

 from a single stem would be u'heyan-e. 

 This plant is efficacious in the treatment of swellings, especiaUy 

 swelling of the glands. The affected part is rubbed with mutton 

 grease or lard and the chewed root of the plant is ejected from the 

 mouth over the swelling, after which the woolly-like fiber from the 

 pod is bound on. 



Tlie plant is gathered in summer by fraternity men, but only the 

 dii-ectors remove the coma from the pods; this is done during a cere- 



1 See ISd Ann. Rep. Bur. Amer. Elhn., p. 20. 



2 Ibid., pp. 24, 416. 



