sw.iNToNl MEDICINKS AND CHARMS 447 



Tliere ;irc certain l)errics calli'd caxwa'sIi ijrowiiig in .strings. 

 A\'li(Mi one lu'iits some of tiie vines that t)ear tliese, breaks them, and 

 phiees tiie In-oken etuis close to a white spot in the eye — cataract {'.) — 

 the latter will come out. 



Syphilis Mii'(licin(> (cri'xiiAsti nfik") is. of course, used for the disease, 

 for which it is named. Before taking it the patient has to drink .some 

 of his own urine. 



Entertaimncnt medicine (sAgu'yayi n:lk") is taken when one is going 

 to be caugiit uji as a "deer"' in peace making and is (wpected to iudp 

 liim when lie makes sport for the people he is among. (See p. 451.) 



Happy medicine (katfi'klA iiak") is used to make one feel joyful. A 

 piece of wood cut from an old tree on which is an eagle's nest i.s 

 added. 



Medicine-iilways-looking-at-the-.sun (gAga'n latl'n nak") is used in the 

 capture of sea otters. It is so called because it is a flower which turns 

 to the sun at its rising and follows it all the way round. After anoint- 

 ing himself with this sea-otter medicine one must not bathe until aft(>r 

 the sealing is over or he would wash the medicine oti'. \A'hile he 

 is out his wife and children jiave to lie still on their backs at home, 

 and his wife also puts rocks about herself, to keep the sea otter (or fur 

 seal) (juict in one place until the hunter can get to it and shoot it. 



The following is an account of the use of another medicine for kill- 

 ing sea otters: 



When a man was going to hunt sea otter he fasted and kept away 

 from his wife for a month. 1 Ic kept his chamber box behind the door, 

 always urinated into it, and let no one else touch it. At the end of 

 the month he started out after an eagle, and having killed one cut oti' 

 the foot and tied a flower called grabbing medicine (dji'yAiiAXAc niik") 

 to it. Then he made a miniature canoe with figures of himself and 

 perhaps others inside, and he represented himself in the act of aiming 

 at a sea otter. He made the eagle's talon cla.sp the seat so that he 

 would have a sure aim and secure the animal. When at length h(> 

 went t)ut and was begimiing to approach the sea otter he blew some of 

 his urine toward it. This would confu.se it so that it would swim in 

 his direction. Sometimes he tied a piece of wood to the eagle's talon 

 so that the sea otter would stand right up in the water like a buoy and 

 be easil}' shot. He al.so made the eagle's talon grasp the seat beside 

 him so that he would ])e sure to get it. If one did not remain away 

 fiom his wife his arm would .shake and spoil the aim. 



In order to shoot a doe the hunter took hairs from the genital region 

 of a doe already killed and fastened them to some of the grabbing 

 m(>dicine and })oth to tiie barrel of liisgun. When he approached deer 

 waving this, a doe would always come toward him. A stone called 

 dana'k found in the deer itself also gave one good luck in hunting it. 



