Note 5 — HISTORICAL INTERPRETATIONS
Reading edition
Bellanger, in Havard (Bulletin 519:6); Opler, The Autobiography; Lumholtz, Unknown Mexico, 1:256; Bennett and Zingg, The Tarahumara, 358. The use of frijolillo in maguey liquor (which equates with mescal) probably accounts for the usage “mescal bean.” Since the text was written further Apache material has appeared (Castetter and Opler, Ethnobiology of the Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache, 54-55).