Note 30 — COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PLAINS PEYOTISM

Kroeber, The Arapaho, 404-405; see also Petrullo, The Diabolic Root, 101. Shawnee sometimes paint their temples; Oto use red bars below side burns. Delaware examples from Speck: red hair-part, red-blue-red-blue-red horizontal lines over the bridge of the nose and cheeks (Wilson’s Big Moon meetings); red and blue lines below and at corners of eyes (“crying for repentance”); green zigzags in yellow cheek spots, two red and one blue line at corner of eyes; all red chin bounded by a blue semilunar arc on the upper lip and up the cheeks (representing the altar “moon”); and blue red-bordered dots on each cheek-bone and forehead representing peyote-buttons (a woman’s design).