Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) - A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan by Carl Lumholtz
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National Importance of Tesvino--Homeward Bound, Pages 330-355
CHAPTER XIX Plant-worship--Hikuli--Internal and External Effects--Hikuli both Man and God--How the Tarahumares Obtain the Plant, and where They Keep It--The Tarahumare Hikuli Feast--Musical Instruments--Hikuli Likes Noise--The Dance--Hikuli's Departure in the Morning--Other Kinds of Cacti Worshipped--"Doctor" Rubio, the Great Hikuli Expert--The Age of Hikuli Worship, Pages 356-379 CHAPTER XX The Tarahumare's Firm Belief in a Future Life--Causes of Death--The Dead are Mischievous and Want Their Families to Join Them--Therefore the Dead Have to be Kept Away by Fair Means or Foul--Three Feasts and a Chase--Burial Customs--A Funeral Sermon, Pages 380-390 CHAPTER XXI Three Weeks on Foot Through the Barranca--Rio Fuerte--I Get My Camera Wet--Ancient Cave-dwellings Ascribed to the Tubar Indians--The Effect of a Compliment--Various Devices for Catching Fish--Poisoning the Water--A Blanket Seine, Pages 391-407 CHAPTER XXII Resumption of the Journey Southward--_Pinus Lumholtzii_--Cooking with Snow--Terror-stricken Indians--A Gentlemanly Highwayman and His "Shooting-box"--The Pernicious Effect of Civilisation Upon the |
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