Note 37 — THE ETHNOLOGY OF PEYOTISM

Klineberg (Notes on the Huichol, 449) mentions special dances led by “angels” the next day—a boy and a girl dressed in their finest. It is not clear if this refers to the dance leaders or to the ceremonial “race for life” with the eating of cake-animals and spraying of the runners by the elders. But elsewhere Lumholtz describes a dance with carved bamboo serpent-sticks, deer-tails on short sticks, and whiskbroom “combs” (Unknown Mexico 2:49-50).