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priest, whose family bring food from his home where it has been 

 cooking during the night, and prepare a meal. After the repast the 

 man visits the person whom he had seen while under the influence 

 of the Datura and tells him that he saw him in his dreams and knows 

 that he stole his property. It is said that "the accused alway returns 

 the property, for he is ashamed of having been discovered.'" 



Dithyrsea mslizeni Engelm. Brassicace^. Mustard family. 



Ila'Jco'lolcta, 'sandhill crane.' So named because the plant is a 



favorito food of this bird. 



A tea made by boiling the entire plant is drunk by members of the 



Galaxy fraternity in their ceremonial chamber, as they say, "to 



looseji theii' tongues that they may talk like fools and drunken men." ' 



The female membei-s of this organization never take this medicme, 



as "women should not bo made to talk too much." 



Epicampes rigens Benth. Poace^e. Grass family. 



Pi'sliu Waive, 'come up quick tall' {pi'shu, come up quick; 

 H'awe, taU, long). 

 This grass is us(h1 only by the Galaxy and Shu'maakwe fraternities 

 to attach to the sticks of plume offerings to theu' anthropic gods. 

 A single spear of grass is measured from the top with the four fingers 

 crosswise, and then the length from the tip of the thumb to the tip 

 of the middle linger, the lingei-s extended. At this pouit the spear 

 of grass is attached midway of the plume-stick, the length of which 

 is measured fi'om the metacarj)us to the tip of the middle finger. 

 The sticks desigiuite the god to whom the offerings are made, and 

 the plumes of the eagle and of other birds convey the breath prayers 

 to the gods.^ 



Eriogonum jamesii Benth. Polygonace^. Buckwheat family. 

 Chi'kwa ]danal:ia, 'make sweet' {cM'lcwa, sweet; ManaTcla, to 

 make). This name is given because the plant sweetens the 

 saliva when it is chewed. 

 The dance director of a Ici'wifsine (chamber dedicated to anthropic 

 worshij))^ administers the blossoms of this plant, which have been 

 ground between stones to a powder, to the dancers who are to per- 

 sonate anthropic gods, after they are dressed for the ceremony. The 

 director roUs in the meal a pencil-shaped stone, about 2i mches long, 

 which is kept in a deersldn sack Avith the flower meal, and places it m 

 the mouth of each dancer, the meal bemg collected on the stone for 

 each person, that the dance may bring ram. Each dancer ejects the 

 medicine from his mouth over his body and ap])arel. 



1 The members of the Galaxy fraternity are the clowns and "delight makers." See B<Sd A vii. Rep. Bur. 

 Amer. Elhn..-p. 420. 

 ^See SSd Ann. Rep. Bur. Amer. Elhti.,p. 171. 

 "Ibid., p. 62. 



