Note 133 — COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PLAINS PEYOTISM

Wissler, The American Indian, 189: “One prominent feature of Nahua life was the elaboration of the moral lecture. In the Pueblo region of the Rio Grande the chiefs and head men were given to daily moral lectures.... Perhaps we are again dealing with a general characteristic of New World society.” Cf. the Tamaulipecan harangue (Prieto, Historia y Estadistica, 123-24).