Note 108 — COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PLAINS PEYOTISM

Cedar was used to purify the Delaware Big House (Speck, A Study of the Delaware, 171), which may account for the special cedar-man in the Delaware rite of Wilson. But the pattern may have been reinforced by the censer of the Catholics, by whom Wilson is known to have been influenced. The Mescalero ascribe sickness after eating peyote to witching by rival shamans. Mooney mentions an odorous root from New Mexico used protectively perhaps, in Kiowa or Comanche meetings. See Kroeber, The Arapaho, 402-403; Parsons, Taos Pueblo, 65, 105; Densmore, The Peyote Cult; Winnebago Songs of the Peyote Ceremony.