The Medicine-men Of The Apache

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Author

Bourke, John Gregory, 1846-1896

Title

The Medicine-Men of the Apache. (1892 N 09 / 1887-1888 (pages 443-604))

Credits

Produced by PM for Bureau of American Ethnology, JoAnn Greenwood, The Internet Archive and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at gallica.bnf.fr)

Language

English

LoC Class

E011: History: America: America

Subject

Apache Indians -- Religion

Category

Text

eBook-No.

42616

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42616

Release Date

April 29, 2013

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE MEDICINE-MEN OF THE APACHE.
2. 2.CHAPTER I. THE MEDICINE-MEN, THEIR MODES OF TREATING DISEASE, THEIR SUPERSTITIONS, PARAPHERNALIA, ETC. — MEDICINE-WOMEN. — REMEDIES AND MODES OF TREATMENT. — HAIR AND WIGS. — MUDHEADS. — SCALP SHIRTS. — THE RHOMBUS, OR BULL ROARER. — THE CROSS. — NECKLACES OF HUMAN FINGERS. — NECKLACES OF HUMAN TEETH. — THE SCRATCH STICK. — THE DRINKING REED.
3. 3.CHAPTER II. HODDENTIN, THE POLLEN OF THE TULE, THE SACRIFICIAL POWDER OF THE APACHE; WITH REMARKS UPON SACRED POWDERS AND BREAD OFFERINGS IN GENERAL. — THE "KUNQUE" OF THE ZUÑI AND OTHERS. — USE OF POLLEN BY THE ISRAELITES AND EGYPTIANS. — HODDENTIN A PREHISTORIC FOOD. — HODDENTIN THE YIAUHTLI OF THE AZTECS. — "BLEDOS" OF ANCIENT WRITERS—ITS MEANING. — TZOALLI. — GENERAL USE OF THE POWDER AMONG INDIANS. — ANALOGUES OF HODDENTIN. — THE DOWN OF BIRDS IN CEREMONIAL OBSERVANCES. — HAIR POWDER. — DUST FROM CHURCHES—ITS USE. — CLAY-EATING. — PREHISTORIC FOODS USED IN COVENANTS. — SACRED BREADS AND CAKES. — UNLEAVENED BREAD. — THE HOT CROSS BUNS OF GOOD FRIDAY. — GALENA.
4. 4.CHAPTER III. THE IZZE-KLOTH OR MEDICINE CORD OF THE APACHE. — ANALOGUES TO BE FOUND AMONG THE AZTECS, PERUVIANS, AND OTHERS. — THE MAGIC WIND KNOTTED CORDS OF THE LAPPS AND OTHERS. — ROSARIES AND OTHER MNEMONIC CORDS. — THE SACRED CORDS OF THE PARSIS AND BRAHMANS. — USE OF CORDS AND KNOTS AND GIRDLES IN PARTURITION. — "MEDIDAS," "MEASURING CORDS," "WRESTING THREADS," ETC. — UNCLASSIFIED SUPERSTITIONS UPON THIS SUBJECT. — THE MEDICINE HAT. — THE SPIRIT OR GHOST DANCE HEADDRESS. — AMULETS AND TALISMANS. — THE "TZI-DALTAI." — CHALCHIHUITL. — PHYLACTERIES.
5. 5.BIBLIOGRAPHY.
6. 6.INDEX.
7. 7.FOOTNOTES:

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