Note 110 — COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PLAINS PEYOTISM

Mooney, Miscellaneous Notes, 8; Peyote Notebook, 12, 14. Dr. Maurice G. Smith collected a number of peyote songs near Anadarko in 1930 (see Densmore, Winnebago Songs of the Peyote Ceremony) as did Richardson in 1935 (Kiowa largely); see also Klineberg, Notes on the Huichol, 458. Radin (A Sketch of the Peyote Cult, 3; The Winnebago Tribe, 388) implies that the paraphernalia circulate only among the four leaders and others sing only occasionally. Songs are best in the morning when the unpleasant effects of the peyote have worn off (cf. Mooney, The Mescal Plant; Kroeber, The Arapaho, 404-405; Rouhier, Monographie, 344). Koshiway (Oto) told a joke in the morning about a partially deaf man’s misunderstanding the song “Jesus in the glory now, he ya na ha we,” and singing “Jesus in Missouri now.” Jack said, laughing, “He must be getting close, He’s just over the river now!” Opler’s informant said the Lipan can sing songs of a personal ceremony such as bear songs in peyote meetings, but not masked dancer songs.