478 MEDICINE-MEN OF THE APACHE. 
of the snake or lightning. The third form, in use among the Apache, 
is an oblong of 7 or 8 inches in length, one and a quarter inches in 
width by a quarter in thickness. One extremity, that through which 
the cord passes, is rounded to rudely represent a human head, and the 
whole bears a close resemblance to the drawings of schoolboys which 
are intended for the human figure. The Apache explained that the 
lines op the front side of the rhombus were the entrails and those on 
the rear side the hair of their wind god. The hair is of several colors, 
and represents the lightning. I did not ascertain positively that such 
Fic. 431.—Rhombus of the Apache 
was the case, but was led to believe that the rhombus of the Apache 
was made by the medicine-men from wood, generally pine or fir, which 
had been struck by lightning on the mountain tops. Such wood is 
held in the highest estimation among them, and is used for the manu- 
facture of amulets of especial efficacy. The Apache name for the rhom- 
bus is tzi-ditindi, the “sounding wood.” The identification of the 
rhombus or ‘‘bull roarer” of the ancient Greeks with that used by the 
Tusayan in their snake dance was first made by E. B. Tylor in the 
Saturday Review in a criticism upon The Snake Dance of the Moquis 
of Arizona.” 
