Note 50 — THE ETHNOLOGY OF PEYOTISM

Lumholtz, Unknown Mexico, 1:292-93, 314, 344, 347-48, 371-72, 384; Bennett and Zingg, The Tarahumara, 294. The ceremony is called napítshi nawlíruga, “moving (dancing) around the fire” (Lumholtz, Unknown Mexico, 1:364). In the dry season the Tarahumari dance the yumari almost nightly to the Morning Star, and sacrifice tesvino to the sun; a man is often deputed to do the dance alone while the others work in the fields, to bring rain (Lumholtz, op. cit., 1:352). The Morning Star is important in the Cora rite too (Lumholtz, op. cit., 1:344; Preuss, Nayarit-Expedition, passim) as well as figuring in Plains peyotism, though somewhat vaguely.