Note 15 — THE ETHNOLOGY OF PEYOTISM
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Lumholtz, op. cit., 1:284-85. The Wichita use the “mescal bean” in racing, and the Kiowa as a prophylactic against stepping on menstrual blood. Peyote is associated with racing in Mexico by the Huichol, Tamaulipecans, and Tarahumari (Lumholtz, Unknown Mexico, 2:49-50; Prieto, Historia y Estadistica, 123-24; Lumholtz, op. cit., 1:372; Bennett and Zingg, Tarahumara, 136-37, 295, 338).