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these ghastly relics for use in their dances. Sometimes the warriors 
will become so excited that they will break off and swallow a finger.! 
Tanner says of the Ojibwa: ‘‘ Sometimes they use sacks of human 
skin to contain their medicines, and they fancy that something is thus 
added to their efficacy.” ” 
Of the savages of Virginia we read: ‘“ Mais @autres portent pour 
plus glorieuse parure une main seiche de quelqwun de leurs ennemis.”s 
Of the Algonkin we read: “Il y en a qui ont une partie du bras et 
lamain de quelque Hiroquois qw ils ont tué; cela est si bien vuidée que 
les ongles restent toutes entieres.” 
The Mohawk “place their foe against a tree or stake and _ first 
tear all the nails from his fingers and run them on a string, which they 
wear the same as we do gold chains. It is considered to the honor of 
any chief who has vanquished or overcome his enemies if he bite off or 
cut off some of their members, as whole fingers.” ° 
The Cenis (Asinai) of Texas, were seen by La Salle’s expedition in 
1687-1690, torturing a captive squaw. ‘They then tore out her hair, 
and cut off her fingers.” ® 
In volume 2 of Kingsborough’s Mexican Antiquities, in the plates of 
the Vatican manuscript, is to be seen a representation of an Aztec priest 
or other dignitary holding out in his hands two human arms. In plate 
76 of the same is a priest offering up a human sacrifice, the virile member 
of the victim cut off. 
Teoyamaqui, the wife of Huitzlipochtli, the Aztec god of war, was 
depicted with a necklace of human hands.7 Squier also says that 
Darga or Kali, the Hindu goddess, who corresponds very closely to her, 
was represented with ‘a necklace of skulls” and ‘‘a girdle of dissevered 
human hands.” 
The Hindu goddess Kali was decorated with a necklace of human 
skulls. In the Propaganda collection, given in Kingsborough,’ are to 
be seen human arms and legs. ; 
“On the death of any of the great officers of state, the finger bones 
and hair are also preserved; or if they have died shaven, as sometimes 
occurs, a bit of their mbiugt dress will be preserved in place of the hair.” 
‘Their families guard their tombs.” | 
The principal war fetiches of Uganda “ consist of dead lizards, bits, 
' Kohl, Kitchi-gami, pp, 345, 346. 
2 Tanner's Narrative, p. 372. 
8 John de Laet, lib. 3, cap. 18, p. 90, quoting Capt. John Smith. 
4Le Jenne in Jesuit Relations, 1633, vol.1, Quebec, 1858. 
6 Third Voyage of David Peter De Vries to New Amsterdam, in Trans. N. Y. Hist. Soc., vol. 3, p. 91. 
® Charlevoix, New France, New York, 1866, vol. 4, p. 105. 
7Squier, Serpent Symbol, p. 197. 
8 Coleman, Mythology of the Hindus, London, 1832, p. 63. 
®Vol. 3. 
0 Speke, Source of the Nile. London, 1863, p. 500. 
4 Tbid. 
