BOURKE. ] HODDENTIN. 503 
of other Apache present, and then of myself, putting a large pinch 
over my heart and upon each shoulder, and then placed the rest upon 
his own tongue. He explained that I had taken the “life” out of his 
medicine hat, and, notwithstanding the powers of his medicine, returned 
in less than a month with a demand for $30 as damages. His hat 
never was the same after I drew it. My suggestion that the applica- 
tion of a little soap might wash away the clots of grease, soot, and 
earth adhering to the hat, and restore its pristine efficacy were received 
with the scorn due to the sneers of the scoffer. 
“Tn time of much lightning, the Apache throw hoddentin and say: 
‘Gun-ju-le, ittindi,’ be good, Lightning.”! 
Fic. 434. Nan-ta-do-tash's medicine hat. 
Tzit-jizinde, ‘the Man who likes Everybody,” who said he belonged 
to the Inoschujochin—Manzanita or Bearberry clan—showed me how 
to pray with hoddentin in time of lightning or storm or danger of any 
kind. Taking a small pinch in his fingers, he held it out at arm’s 
length, standing up, and repeated his prayer, and then blew his breath 
hard. Iwas once with a party of Apache while a comet was visible. I 
called their attention to it, but they did not seem to care. On the 
other hand, Antonio told me that the “biggest dance” the Apache 
ever had was during the time that “‘the stars all fell out of the sky” 
(1833). 
“The only act of a religious character which I observed . . . was 
shortly after crossing the river they [i. e., the American officers] were 
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