Note 59 — HISTORICAL INTERPRETATIONS
Reading edition
Koshiway compared the smoke-meeting before the war path to peyote: “They have a meeting and smoke the pipe together and leave the next day. This clears up the enemies, and you can prophesy then. Peyote is similar to this—all night.” Another older pattern interestingly survives among the Oto: in the informal morning period in the tipi, joking relationship seems to function.