Note 74 — COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PLAINS PEYOTISM

Huichol peyote fetishes include the squirrel, skunk, birds and the shaman’s fetish plant; the Tarahumari have the squirrel, birds and peyote plant; the southern Plains birds and the peyote plant; and the northern Plains the plant only—an interesting degeneration in complexity of symbolism, a sort of diffusionist law of inverse squares.