Note 47 — COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PLAINS PEYOTISM
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Excessive prices for peyote have been reported elsewhere. Mooney says (Miscellaneous Notes, 30) an Oklahoma White dealer once charged 25 cents a button, though they cost him only $5.00 a thousand. Hoebel says a Comanche once traded a fine horse for five hundred buttons. See Bennett and Zingg, The Tarahumara, 291-92; Lumholtz, Tarahumari Dances, 453-55.