THE MEDICINE-MEN OF THE APACHE.
Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Bourke, John Gregory
BY
JOHN G. BOURKE, Captain, Third Cavalry, U. S. Army.
CONTENTS.
Page.
Chapter I. The medicine-men, their modes of treating disease, their superstitions, paraphernalia, etc.
451
Medicine-women
468
Remedies and modes of treatment
471
Hair and wigs
474
Mudheads
475
Scalp shirts
476
The rhombus, or bull roarer
476
The cross
479
Necklaces of human fingers
480
Necklaces of human teeth
487
The scratch stick
490
The drinking reed
493
Chapter II. Hoddentin, the pollen of the tule, the sacrificial powder of the Apache; with remarks upon sacred powders and offerings in general
499
The "kunque" of the Zuñi and others
507
Use of the pollen by the Israelites and Egyptians
517
Hoddentin a prehistoric food
518
Hoddentin the yiauhtli of the Aztecs
521
"Bledos" of ancient writers—its meaning
522