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Title: Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Ethnology Indians
Publisher: Washington : U. S. Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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logy, Santa Fe, New Mexico.The writer desires to express her indebtedness also to her Zuiiifriends, especially the late Naiuchi, elder-brother Bow-Priest, andthe most renowned medicine-man of his time, if not of any period,among his people; his son, Halian, an associate rain priest; the highpriest, also a pronunent medicine-man, and his son Hunki, the twobemg members of the medicine order of the Galaxy fraternity, oneof the origmal organizations of the Zuni; Cantina, a member of theEagle-down fraternity; Zuni Nick, a member of the Great Firefraternity; Tsinahc, a member of the Sword Swallowers fraternity,and his wife, a member of the Shumaakwe, and others—to all theseshe owes a debt of gratitude for their friendly interest and for theirearnest, conscientious, and voluntary aid. 1 The association of plant medicines with animals has caused some students erroneously to believe thatthese medicines are part of, or are prepared from, the animals or birds which bear their respective names.
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MEDICAL PRACTICES AND MEDICINAL PLANTS Medical treatment is older than intelligence in man. The doghimts the fields for his special grass medicine; the bear dresses thewound of her cub or feUow-bear with perhaps as much inteUigenceas primitiv-e man observes in his emphical practice. Primitive mandoes not know why his medicine cures; he simply knows that it doescure. He believes disease to be the result of malign influence,includuig that of liis fellow man, to whom he attributes the power ofsorcery which he himself is unable to overcome; hence he mustsununon the aid of the beast gods, who alone possess the power ofcombating the malevolent practices of the sorcerer,^ while he admin-isters their medicine. The plants of the gods could not effect a cure,however, by the mere use of the medicines concocted from them;dm-ing the treatment of the patient prayers and supplications mustbe offered to the gods to whom the medicine belongs. Although the therapeutics of the Indians is largely associa

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