Note 1 — THE ETHNOLOGY OF PEYOTISM
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Rouhier (Monographie, 91, n. 1) argues immense antiquity for peyotism, circa 300 years B.C., among the Chichimeca on quasi-historical grounds. Our knowledge of peyote from Spanish documents goes back to the sixteenth century in Mexico. A manuscript in the Library of Congress reports the trial of a Taos Indian, February 3-8, 1719, for having “taken peyote and disturbed the town” (cf. Twitchell, Spanish Archives, 2:188). See Bandelier, Manuscript; Mooney, Tarumari-Guayachic.