502 " MEDICINE-MEN OF THE APACHE. 
“When the sun rises we cast a pinch of hoddentin toward him, and 
we do the same thing to the moon, but not to the stars, saying ‘Gun- 
ju-le, chigo-na-ay, si-chi-zi, gun-ju-le, inzayu, ijanale,’ meaning ‘Be good, 
O Sun, be good.” ‘Dawn, long time let me live’; or, ‘Don’t let me die 
for a long time,’ and at night, ‘Gun-jr-le, chil-jilt, si-chi-zi, gun-ju-le, 
inzayu, ijanale, meaning ‘Be good, O Night; Twilight, be good; do not 
let me die.” ‘In going on a hunt an Apache throws hoddentin and 
says ‘Gun-ju-le, chigo-na-ay, cha-ut-si, ping, kladitza,’ meaning ‘Be 
good, O Sun, make me succeed deer to kill.’”! 
The name of the full moon in the Apache language is ‘‘ klego-na-ay,” 
but the crescent moon is called “tzontzose” and hoddentin is always 
offered to it.” 
“ Hoddentin is thrown to the sun, moon (at times), the morning star, 
and occasionally to the wagon.”* “The Apache offer much hoddentin 
to ‘Na-u-kuzze,’ the Great Bear.”* ‘Our custom is to throw a very 
small pinch of hoddentin at dawn to the rising sun. 
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“The women of 
the Chiricahua throw no hoddentin to the moon, but pray to it, saying: 
“Gun-jule, klego-na-ay,” (be good, O Moon).® 
When the Apache plant corn the medicine-men bury eagle-plume 
sticks in the fields, scatter hoddentin, and sing. When the corn is 
partially grown they scatter pinches of hoddentin over it.* 
The “eagle-plume sticks” mentioned in the preceding paragraph sug- 
gests the “ke-thawn” mentioned by Matthews in “The Mountain 
Chant.”® 
“When a person is very sick the Apache make a great fire, place the 
patient near it, and dance in a circle around him and the fire, at the 
same time singing and sprinkling him with hoddentin in the form of a 
eross on head, breast, arms, and legs.”° 
In November, 1885, while at the San Carlos agency, I had an inter- 
view with Nantadotash, an old blind medicine-man of the Akane or 
Willow gens, who had with him a very valuable medicine-hat which he 
refused to sell, and only with great reluctance permitted me to touch, 
Taking advantage of his infirmity, I soon had a picture drawn in my 
notebook, and the text added giving the symbolism of all the orna- 
mentation attached. Upon discovering this, the old man became much 
excited, and insisted upon putting a pinch of hoddentin upon the draw- 
ing, and then recited a prayer, which I afterwards succeeded in getting 
verbatim. After the prayer was finished, the old man arose and 
marked with hoddentin the breast of his wife, of Moses, of Antonio, 
| Information of Mickey Free. 
2Informat.on of Alchise, Mike, and others. 
‘Information of Francesca and other captive Chiricahua squaws. 
4Tnformation of Moses Henderson. 
5 Information of Chato. 
® Information of Tze-go-juni. 
7 Information of Moses Henderson and other Apache at San Carlos. 
Bureau of Ethnology, Report for 1883-'84. 
8Tnformation of Francesca and others. 
