488 MEDICINE-MEN OF THE APACHE. 
dentists, the teeth of the enemies they had killed in battle.! Many of 
the Carib, we are told by a Spanish writer, ostentatiously wear neck- 
laces made of strings of the teeth of the enemies whom they have slain.” 
Padre Fray Alonzo Fernandez says of the Carib: ‘“Traen los dientes 
con los cabellos de los que mataron por collares, como hazian antigua- 
mente los Scitas.”* The people of New Granada “traen al cuello dien- 
tes de los que matavan.”! Picart says that the natives of New Granada 
and Cumana ‘portent au col les dents des ennemis quwils ont massa- 
crez.”° The Spaniards found in the temple of the Itzaes, on the island of 
Peten, an idol made of “yesso,” which is plaster, and in the head, which 
was Shaped like the sun, were imbedded the teeth of the Castilians whom 
they had captured and killed.® 
“ They strung together the teeth of such of their enemies as they had 
slain in battle and wore them on their legs and arms as trophies of suc- 
cessful cruelty.” ' 
Stanley says, referring to the natives of the Lower Congo country: 
“Their necklaces consisted of human, gorilla, and crocodile teeth, in 
such quantity, in many cases, that little or nothing could be seen of the 
neck.” ® 
“The necklaces of human teeth which they | Urangi and Rubunga, of 
the Lower Congo] wore.”® Again, “human teeth were popular orna- 
ments for the neck.” © Whena king dies they [the Wahtma, of the head of 
the Nile] cut out his lower jaw and preserve it covered with beads." 
Schweinfurth” speaks of having seen piles of “lower jawbones from 
which the teeth had been extracted to serve as ornaments for the neck” 
by the Monbuttoo of Africa. ‘A slaughtered foe was devoured from 
actual bloodthirstiness and hatred by the Niam-Niams of Central 
Africa. . . . They make no secret of their savage craving, 
but ostentatiously string the teeth of their victims round their necks, 
adorning the stakes erected beside their dwellings ‘or the habitation of 
the trophies with the skulls of the men they have devoured. Human 
fat is universally sold.” 
1 ““Traen los dientes al cuello (como sacamuelas) por bravosidad.’"—Gomara, Historia de las Indias, 
p. 201. 
2 “Tos Caberres y muchos Caribes, usan por gala muchas sartas de dientes y muelas de gente para 
dar 4 entender que son muy valientes por los despojos que alli ostentan ser de sus enemigos que mata- 
ron.’’—Gumilla, Orinoco, Madrid, 1741, p. 65. 
3 Padre Fray Alonzo Fernandez, Historia Eclesiastica, Toledo, 1611, p. 17. 
4 Tbid., p. 161. 
6 Cérémonies et Cofittumes, Amsterdam, 1735, vol. 6, p. 114. 
6 “ Formada la cara como de Sol, con rayos de Nacar al rededor, y perfilada de lo mismo; y en la boca 
embutidos los dientes, que quitaron A los Espanoles, que avian muerto.’'—Villaguitierre, Hist. de la 
Conquista de la Provincia de el Itza, Madrid, 1701, p. 500. (Itza seems to have been the country of the 
Lacandones.) 
7 Edwards, speaking of the Carib, quoted by Spencer, Dese. Sociology. The same custom is 
ascribed to the Tupinambi of Brazil. Ibid, quoting from Southey. 
8 Through the Dark Continent, vol. 2, p. 286. 
° Thid, p. 288. 
10 Thid., p. 290. 
11 Speke, Source of the Nile, London, 1863, p. 500. 
12 Heart of Africa, vol 2, p. 54. 
13 Thid., vol. 1, p. 285. 
