468 MEDICINE-MEN OF THE APACHE. 
y comienzan la primera en la casa de su Chemisi que es su sacerdote 
principal y el que cuida de laCasa del Fuego.”' The Asinai extended 
as far east as the present city of Natchitoches (Nacogdoches). 
Spencer quotes Bernan and Hilhouse to the effect that the poor 
among the Arawaks of South America (Guiana) have no names because 
they can not pay the medicine-men.? 
As a general rule, the medicine-men do not attend to their own fam- 
ilies, neither do they assist in cases of childbirth unless specially 
needed. To both these rules there are exceptions innumerable. While 
T was at San Carlos Agency, Surgeon Davis was sent for to help in a 
case of uterine inertia, and I myself have been asked in the pueblo of 
Nambé, New Mexico, to give advice in a case of puerperal fever. 
The medicine-men are accused of administering poisons to their 
enemies. Among the Navajo I was told that they would put finely 
pounded glass in food. 
MEDICINE-WOMEN. 
There are medicine-women as well as medicine-men among the 
Apache, with two of whom I was personally acquainted. One named 
“Oaptain Jack” was well advanced in years and physically quite 
feeble, but bright in intellect and said to be well versed in the lore of 
her people. She was fond of instructing her grandchil- 
dren, whom she supported, in the prayers and invocations 
to the gods worshiped by her fathers, and I have several 
times listened carefully and unobserved to these recitations 
and determined that the prayers were the same as those 
which had already been given to myseif as those of the 
tribe. The other was named Tze-go-juni, a Chiricahua, 
and a woman with a most romantic history. She had 
passed five years in captivity among the Mexicans in So- 
nora and had learned to speak Spanish with facility. <A 
mountain lion had severely mangled her in the shoulder 
and knee, and once she had been struck by lightning; so 
Fic. 420-ea. oat whether by reason of superior attainments or by an 
icine arrow appeal to the superstitious reverence of her comrades, she 
mee a wielded considerable influence. These medicine-women 
blowomen.  Gevote their attention principally to obstetrics, and have 
many peculiar stories to relate concerning pre-natal influ- 
ences and matters of that sort. Tze-go-juni wore at her neck the stone 
amulet, shaped like a spear, which is figured in the illustrations of this 
paper. The material was the silex from the top of a mountain, taken 
from a ledge at the foot of a tree which had been struck by lightning. 
The fact that siliceous rock will emit sparks when struck by another 
hard body appeals to the reasoning powers of the savage as a proof that 
the fire must have been originally deposited therein by the bolt of light- 
' Cronica Serafica y Apostolica, Espinosa, Mexico, 1746, p. 421. 
2 Desc. Sociology. 
