494 MEDICINE-MEN OF THE APACHE. 
Water was carried in reeds by the Dyaks of Borneo, according to 
Bock.!. The manner in which the natives of the New Hebrides and 
other islands of the South Pacific Ocean carry water in bamboo joints 
recalls the Zuni method of preserving the sacred water of the ocean in 
hollow reeds.” 
Mr. F. H. Cushing shows that 
‘‘so far as language indicates the 
character of the earliest water 
vessels which to any extent met 
the requirements of the Zuni an- 
cestry, they were tubes of wood 
or sections of canes.”* Long af- 
ter these reeds had disappeared 
from common use, the priests still 
persisted in their use for carry- 
ing the water for the sacred cer- 
emonies. The mother of the king 
of Uganda gave to Speke “a 
beautifully-worked pombé suck- 
ing-pipe.”* For ordinary purposes these people have “drinking gourds.” 
seu 
Fic, 482.—The scratch stick and drinking reed. 
through a reed;° and, later on in his narrative, we learn that the reed 
is generally used for the purposes of drinking. “The Malabars reck- 
oned it insolent to touch the vessel with their lips when drinking.”® 
They made use of vessels with a spout, which were no more and no 
less than the small hollow-handled soup ladles of the Zuni and Tusa- 
yan, through which they sipped their hot broth. 
In an ancient grave excavated not far from Salem, Massachusetts, in 
1873, were found five skeletons, one of which was supposed to be that 
of the chief Nanephasemet, who was killed in 1605 or 1606. He was 
the king of Namkeak. On the breast of this skeleton were discovered 
“several small copper tubes . . . from 4 to 8 inches in length, and 
from one-eighth to one-fourth of an inch in diameter, made of copper 
rolled up, with the edges lapped.” 
Alarcon relates that the tribes seen on the Rio Colorado by him in 
1541, wore on one arm “certain small pipes of cane.” But the object 
or purpose of wearing these is not indicated.° 
The natives of the Friendly Islands carried in their ears little cylin- 
ders of reed, although we learn that these were “filled with a red solid 
1 Head-Hunters of Borneo, London, 1881, p. 139. 
2See, for the New Hebrides, Forster, Voyage Round the World, vol. 2, p. 255. 
3Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1882-'83, p. 482. 
*Speke, Source of the Nile, London, 1863, pp. 306, 310. 
’ Cameron, Across Africa, London, 1877, vol. 1, p. 276. 
De Gama’s Discovery of the East Indies, in Knox, Voyages, London, 1767, vol, 2, p. 324. 
7 Andrew K. Ober, in the Salem Gazette, Salem, Mass. 
sHakluyt, Voyages, vol. 3, p. 508; also, Ternaux-Compans, Voy., vol. 9, pp. 307, 308. 
