Note 28 — APPENDIX 4: “PLANT WORSHIP” IN MEXICO AND THE UNITED STATES

Stevenson, Ethnobotany of the Zuñi, 46, 47, 88; The Zuñi Indians, 385; Parsons, A Zuñi Detective, 168-70. Every single instance in this paragraph finds parallels in the uses of peyote: the powdering of the root, rain-getting, discovery of robbers, as an anodyne, for wounds, etc., differentiation in sex and communication with the dead. Note also in connection with rain-making the “water-bird” of peyotism.