The Medicine-Men of the Apache. (1892 N 09 / 1887-1888 (pages 443-604))

by John Gregory Bourke

• Acosta, José, cited on sacrifices of Indian corn [525]
• Alarcon, quoted on Indian customs [491], [494], [511]
  • quoted on Indian sacred cords [555]
• Albinos, not medicine-men among the Apaches [460]
• Alegre, Francisco J., cited on Indian remedies [472]
  • cited on ceremonial scratching among Indians [492]
• Amulets of the Apache [587-91]
• Arriaga, José de, cited on Indian medicine-men [594]
• Ashes, use of, in religious formalities [536]
• Asylum, right of, among Apache and other Indians [453-454]

B.

• Backus, E., quoted on magic powder of Indians [513]
• Baker, Frank, cited on "hand of glory" [486]
• Baker, Samuel, cited on African customs [489]
• Baking, origin of [542]
• Balboa, Vasco Nuñez, cited on Indian medicine-men [467]
  • cited on Peruvian festival [527]
• Bancroft, H. H., cited on Indian medicine-men [457], [511]
  • cited on mutilation by Indians [483]
  • cited on scratching, by Indians [491]
  • cited on Indian cakes [524]
  • cited on Indian use of feathers [534], [535]
• Barcia, Gabriel de Cardenas, cited on sacred meal of Indians [512]
  • quoted on magic powder of Indians [549]
• Bean, aversion to, by Egyptians and Abyssinians [517]
• Beans, string of, used as signal by Tecumseh [555]
• Benzoni, Girolamo, cited on Indian medicine-men [461]
• Black, William G., cited on magic knots and cords [570], [572], [573], [575], [576], [577], [579], [580]
• Blankets, blessed, used at Zuñi feasts [526]
• Bledos, meaning of the term [522]
• Blindness among Indian medicine-men [470]
• Blount, Thomas, cited on symbolic use of meal [513], [514]
• Bock, Carl, cited on Borneo water vessels [494]
• Bollaert, William, cited on emeralds of Peruvians [590]
• Brand, John, cited on bell-ringing [465]
  • "hand of glory" [486]
  • cited on powders [514], [532], [536]
  • cited on sacred cakes [541], [544], [545], [546], [547]
  • cited on cords and girdles [557], [561], [568], [569], [570], [571], [573], [575], [576], [578], [579], [580]
• Brasseur de Bourbourg, cited on Indian medicine-men [466]
  • cited on origin of labrets [498]
  • cited on tzoalli [523]
• Bread, sacred [541-547]
  • unleavened [543], [544]
• Brinton, Daniel G., cited on Indian medicine-men [457], [480], [532]
  • cited on Peruvian quipu [562]
  • cited on chalchihuitl among Mexicans [590]
  • quoted on influence of Indian medicine-men [593], [594]
• Bruce, James, quoted on Abyssinian hair dressing [492]
• Bull-roarer, use of among Indians [476-479]
• Buns, hot cross, of Good Friday [544-545]
• Burton, Robert, cited on magic cords and girdles [568], [569], [575]
  • cited on exorcism [584]

C.

• Cakes, sacred [518], [541-547]
• Cameron, V. Lovett, cited on African customs [494], [514], [515]
• Castañeda, cited on Indian bread [522]
• Castration of Indian priests and medicine-men [454]
• Catlin, George, cited on Indian medicine-men [463]
  • cited on Indian wigs [475]
• Chalchihuitl, an Indian amulet [588-591]
• Christmas foods [547]
• Clavigero, Francisco S., cited on Indian labret [497]
  • cited on Indian mats of reeds [527-528]
  • cited on Indian food [523]
• Clay-eating [537-540]
• Coleman, Charles, cited on Hindu powders [515]
  • cited on sacred cords [565]
• Columbus, Christopher, quoted on magic powder of Indians [513]
• Commerce between "Buffalo" Indians and Pueblos [529], [530]
• Confessions of patient to Indian medicine-men [465], [466]
• Corbusier, Wm. F., quoted on galena among the Indians [549]
  • cited on use of pollen by Indians [505]
  • cited on Indian medicine-men [460]
  • cited on Indian wigs [474]
• Cord of St. Francis, the [556-557]
• Cords, used in casting lots [558-559]
  • magic wind, of the Lapps [560-561]
  • mnemonic [561-563]
  • sacred, of the Parsis and Brahmins [563-567]
  • Mahometan belief concerning [566]
  • measuring [572-573]
  • sacred, ophic origin of [574]
  • formerly used in binding prisoners [574-575]
  • unclassified superstitions concerning [576-580]
  • superstitions concerning [553-580]
• Countercharms to Indian "medicine" [459-460]
• Coxe, William, quoted on Indian magic powder [548]
• Crantz, David, cited on scratching among Eskimo [491]
• Crispellæ [541]
• Cross, place of the, in Indian symbolism [479-480]
• Cushing, F. H., cited on Zuñi water-vessels [494]
  • cited on Zuñi Indians [452]
  • cited on Zuñi drinking tubes [494]

D.

• Dall, William H., cited on Eskimo labrets [496]
• Davis, John, cited on Pueblo rebellion [555]
• Diaz, Bernal, cited on Indian medicine-women [469]
  • cited on chalchihuitl among the Mexicans [591], [592]
• Diaz, Melchior, cited on Indian wig-making [475]
• Disease, method of treating by Indian medicine-men [462-468]
• Divination with grains and seeds [454-532], [533]
• Dobrizhoffer, Father, quoted on Abipones medicine-men [459-463]
• Dorman, Rushton M., cited on Peruvian priests [456]
• Dorsey, J. Owen, cited on Siouan medicine [452]
• Down of birds in ceremonial observances [533-535]
• Drinking reed and tubes, use of among Indians [493-498]
• Drinks and drugs used by Indian medicine-men [454], [455-456]
• Du Halde, P., cited on cords worn by Lamas [561]
• Dupuis, cited on castration of priests of Cybele [454]
• Duran, Diego, cited on Mexican priests [454], [456], [464]
  • cited on Indian drinking tubes [495], [496]
  • cited on sacred meal of Indians [510]
  • cited on Indian idol of dough [524], [525], [529]
  • quoted on clay eating by Mexicans [538]
  • cited on cords among Mexicans [558]
  • cited on Mexican headdress [582]
• Dust from churches, superstitions concerning [537]

E.

• Earth eating [537-540]
• Emerson, Mrs. Ellen Russell, cited on Indian customs [490], [495]
• Epileptic and insane, how regarded by Apache [460-461]
• Etmüller, Michael, quoted on girdles and cords [571], [572]

F.