Note 62 — COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PLAINS PEYOTISM

The Kickapoo once tried a four-legged brass kettle instead of the regulation three-legged iron one, but soon discarded it, having decided that the tone was not right (this probably rationalizes some criticism of their ostentation). The Caddo had a 10-marbled crock drum with a deer skin head; the Oto, who have the kettle drum, sometimes use a crock, as do the Omaha (Gilmore, The Mescal Society, 166; Uses of Plants). The Delaware sometimes used otter skin instead of deer skin, with four bosses tightened with a sharp stick or deer-horn (Harrington, Religion and Ceremony, 188; Petrullo, The Diabolic Root, 50).