Courtesy of Samuel Guy Inman
Girls of the Chaco Mission School
They are not having a picnic, but have just eaten their noonday meal, and the kettle of maize is nearly empty.
He had many amusing encounters with the witch-doctors. You would not think from the picture of a Chaco witch-doctor that they could frighten anybody, but these natives lived in deadly fear of them. Mr. Grubb proved how foolish it was to have faith in them. When a witch-doctor claimed to have a charm against bullets, Mr. Grubb said:
"All right; you stand over there and I'll shoot at you, and you won't mind a bit."
The witch-doctor wouldn't hear of this trial, and the Indians laughed at him.
Once Mr. Grubb heard that a witch-doctor was taking needles out of his patients' bodies, and he proved that the witch-doctor bought all the needles from him and that the cure was a pretense.
Some of the Indians were very smart. There was one called Pinse-apawa, who came into Mr. Grubb's tent one day just as Mr. Grubb was taking some medicine. This medicine had an alcoholic smell though it had a dreadfully bitter taste, so bitter that you could hardly swallow it. Pinse-apawa smelled the odor of liquor.