Note 98 — THE ETHNOLOGY OF PEYOTISM

Belo Kozad’s (Kiowa) father peyote had been Quanah Parker’s (Comanche) and was handed around after the meeting almost as an heirloom. Mumsika (Comanche) still preserves a famous peyote button of Kutubi’s (Hoebel). Howard White Wolf (Comanche) has a peyote he addresses as “older brother” since it had cured him as a baby. Clyde Koko (Kiowa) quit peyote one Christmas night and gave Charley two father peyotes to take back to Laredo and plant with smoke and prayer; uncertain, the latter brought them back to find Koko had completely changed his mind: “I never made such a mistake in my life. If you’d done that it sure would have ruined me. I’ve learned a lesson!”