Note 3 — II. THE URINE DANCE OF THE ZUÑIS.

“There are three secret orders in Zuñi,—the “Zuñi,” the “Knife,” and the “Nehue-Cue.” The object of the latter is said to be to teach fortitude to its members, as well as to teach them the therapeutics of stomachic disorders, etc. In their dances they resort to the horrible practice of drinking human urine, eating human excrement, animal excrement, and other nastiness which can only be believed by seeing it.”—(Extract from the Personal Notes of Captain Bourke, November 16, 1881.)