1902.} 



Kroeber, The Arapaho. 



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said that when there was a thunderstorm, some people set 

 out buckets and vessels, and drank the water caught 

 in them. This water was powerful, and made them 

 foolish. Of late years the mescal (peyote) worship 

 has spread among some of the Arapaho. The effects 

 of this plant are, however, not strictly intoxicating. 

 It is eaten only in connection with the religious cult, 

 and occasionally as medicine. 



Smoking the pipe plays as large a part in the life 

 of the Arapaho as among other Prairie tribes. Their 

 most sacred tribal object is a pipe, that, according 

 to their cosmology, was one of the first things that 

 existed in the world. The Gros Ventres had several 

 such sacred pipes. A man who had eloped 

 with a woman, and wished to become 

 reconciled with her ' husband, sent him 

 hounaganiitcaa" ("a pipe of settlement") 

 by an old man, together with presents. 

 When the Arapaho made peace and friend- 

 ship with the Pawnees and Osages, a pipe 

 was used in the peace ceremonial. 



Pipes are generally of red catlinite and 

 of the forms usual among the Plains 

 tribes. Sometimes black stone is used, 

 especially for small pipes. The wooden 

 stem is more frequently round than of 

 the flat shape usual among the Sioux. A 

 small straight or tubular pipe is shown in 

 Fig. I. This is made of the leg-bone of an 

 antelope. The tobacco is pressed into the 

 larger end. In one place the bone is 

 wrapped with a tendon. This was said 

 to have been put there in order to prevent 

 the heat from going to the mouth. The 

 sacred pipe of the tribe is also tubular, pig. ,. 



seeming to be made of a piece of black and p.F« ^^^;^;^^ , 



Fig. 2. 

 Tubular 

 _ cm, 



a piece of white stone; but it is called rig. 2" dsfs). Pipe-stoker, 

 "flat pipe " (saeitcaa"). '""^"'' =' '="• 



