Note 22 — BOTANICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF PEYOTE
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Rudo Ensayo (1760) in Mooney, Tarumari-Guayachic. A note by F. W. H[odge] indicates a purely medicinal use of peyote for the Opata. Otomi: León, fide Mooney; Mooney doubts this, somewhat unwarrantedly I think. Pima: Alegre, in Mooney, Tarumari-Guayachic. Comecrudo: Handbook of the American Indians, 1:209a; Mooney, Tarumari-Guayachic, whose source is probably Gatschet. Lipan: Opler, The Use of Peyote. Tonkawa: Mooney, op. cit. Taos: Parsons, Taos Pueblo, 114, note 115. Mescalero Apache: Rouhier, Monographie, 4 (Opler records this as xuc); Safford, An Aztec Narcotic, 297; Mooney, op. cit. Comanche: Mooney, Miscellaneous Notes; the present writer recorded wↄ´kweᵖⁱ and pua´kιt (= “medicine”).