280 PECULIARITIES OF DIET. 



rally worn with a cotton chemise undemeatli 

 and is bound about the waist with a girdle. 

 We rarely if ever see a thorough-bred Pueblo 

 woman in Mexican dress. 



The weapons most in use among the Pue- 

 blos are the bow and arrow, with a long-han- 

 dled lance and occasionally a fusil. The raw- 

 hide shield is also much used, which, though 

 of but little service against fire-arms, serves 

 to ward off the arrow and lance. 



The ahment of these Indians is, in most 

 respects, similar to that of the Mexicans ; in 

 fact, as has been elsewhere remarked, the lat- 

 ter adopted with their utensils numerous items 

 of aboriginal diet. The tortilla, the atole, the 

 pinole,* and many others, together with the 

 use of chile, are from the Indians, Some 

 of the wilder tribes make a peculiar kind of 

 pinole, by grinding the bean of the mezquite 

 tree hito flour, which is then used as that of 

 corn. And besides the tortilla they make 

 another singular kind of bread, if we may so 

 style it, called guai/ave, a roll of which so much 

 resembles a ' hornets' nest,' that by strangers 

 it is often designated by this title. It is usual- 

 ly made of Indian corn prepared and ground 

 as for tortillas, and diluted into a thin paste. 



• Pinole is in effect the cold-jlour of our hunters. It if ^« 

 meal of parched Imlian corn, prepared for use by stirring it ip 

 with a little cold water. This food seems also to have been ol 

 ancient use among the aborigines of other parts of Amenca. 

 Father Charlevoix, in 1721, says of the savages about the northern 

 WLkes, that Lhey " reduce [the maize] to Flour which they caJJ 

 Fanne froide (cold Flour), and this is the best Provision that can 

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