| Show India Mdo HoC The medicine bags of Nav ajocs Znllla still Apaches all kindred tribes in New MexIco and Arizona contain a curious powder known as corn pollen or hod dentin This powder which Is I the liOl Ion of a rush and also of uiaio appears to bo used ns a mcdicIn bIIIS eaten by the eick and put on tbo lend or other parts to case pain bnt principally as a Facrcd offering to tire Suit and moon tb1noo and as u sanctifier of everything A pinch of it U i thrown toward the sun and then toward tho fonr winds for help in war or tho chase Is put on the trail of a Puniko to prevent harm from It placed on the tongue of tho tired hunter ni n rentorntlvi hung In bag ronnd tho nocks of infanta us n preservative preserv-ative and sprinkled on tho dim In fuel ovrry action of them Indians Is I pauctiHcd by this powder fa that iw Captain Ilonrko writes in the ninth volume of Tho Itcport of the Burcim of thnology Smithsonian plenty of hocldnUII has oollln to mean that n particular performance cr Place is sacred sa-cred Captain Bourke shows runny analog to lie Uro of thin sacred powder both III Ito Cast and among tile ancient Greeks and Romans and it is clear that Bimiltr practices with regard to mca icillothut IN i lungic huve prevailed ovtrywhdo and iu nil agon for Superstition Super-stition Ftcma to bo tho universal hrri togo of limn ho deeply ingrained in his cry uotllro flint all tho efforts of phi loiophcrs itid thirteen chits will not avail to root It out Mcdicino bag or amulets will continue to bn worn openly open-ly or secretly not only by the wild In dish nnd the Katnr but by funny among ourselves who cling to tho beliefs hand cd down probably from remote i rehis 1 torlo ages Chambers Journal |
