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specialize in. I want to warn, however, against thinking of this divi- 

 sion as quite so rigid as it nnght appear to be at first: one individual 

 may, at the same time, be a disease ciirer and a rain maker; or a 

 disease curer and a divinator; or a divinator and an incantator; etc. 



Di*'Da'n9Wt'ski, he cures them (indef. ; habit.); a curer. 



This name, as already stated (p. 84), is given first to any person 

 belonging to any of the several groups here discussed, and might 

 therefore be considered as an equivalent of the term "medicine 

 man" as used in this paper. 



It is, however, only by a generalization that it has come to bo be- 

 stowed also on such people as priests and incantators, as its meaning 

 clearly shows that it must originally have been used to refer to dis- 

 ease curers only. 



These are the people, men or wonic]i, that are called upon in cases 

 of sickness to diagnose the nature of the disease, prescribe treatment, 

 the injunctions and the restrictions, collect the plniits and weeds, or 

 wjiatever other kind of materia niedica is to efl'ect the cure. 



Usually they proclaim to be proficient in all ailments, whatever 

 their nature, but in some cases an individual may acquire quite a 

 reputation for his skill in treating some particular disease. There 

 was hardly any such case duiing my stay with the tribe but the 

 names of two medicine men, lately deceased, were still fresh in 

 everyone's memory — one, Wil., the writer of Ms. II (see p. 9) 

 having been held in high esteem on account of his successful treat- 

 ment of Du'le-'dzi (scrofula), and another, tsanu-'si (Leech), owing 

 his reputation chiefly to his skill in curing imak'o'N'y yvDcyo-Vela 

 (swollen testicles). 



There is one man now, yo''ni;G()-'"ski (bear coming out of the 

 water) (sec p. 136 and pi. 10, b), who might in a way be called a 

 specialist, in that he only attends to cutaneous wounds, but this, I 

 found, was merely due to the fact that he had never been able to 

 acquire any further knowledge. 



Apart from exercising the profession of disease curer this class of 

 medicine men will often also take patients to the river; they almost 

 invariably perform this rite for their own family, instead of paying 

 a regular priest to do it; they moreover generally claim some divina- 

 tory knowledge. These two qualifications, however, usually pertain 

 to the domain of the "priest". 



This class is usually called ama''yi Dt'-Dadzo°.stf'sGi, he takes 

 them (indef.) to, and brings them back from, the water. 



The medicine men })elonging to this class usually specialize in the 

 ritual which consists in taking a client, not necessarily a sick person, , 

 to the river or the stream, and there reciting a prayer, conjuration, 

 or incantation for the benefit of the client; for the latter's success in 

 the ball game, in love, in hujoting, for his long life, for his personal. 



