Le magazine de Scribner . et sa danse peut aller toute la nuit. Les Indiens m'ont dit que le culte était le plus dur, épuisant même pour un Indien. Dans ces chansons et danses, ils invoquent la théaide des animaux sauvages. Les oiseaux, qui chantent au printemps, chantent pour la pluie; les criquets, les tortues, les poissons, les thégrenouilles, tous aident à faire la pluie, et tous les 442 DANSES TARAHUMARI ET la danse DU CULTE DES PLANTES. Le cerf de la saison de jumelage leur a enseigné de danser leur grande danse, Yumaree; et la dinde sauvage taughtits leur autre grande danse, Rutu-buree. Environ trois heures le matin, constatant que le dan

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Scribner's magazine . and his dancing may go on allnight. The Indians told me that suchworship was the hardest kind of work, exhausting even to an Indian. In allthese songs and dances they invoke thehelp of the wild animals. The birds, who sing in the spring, sing for rain ;the crickets, the turtles, the fish, thefrogs, all help to make rain, and all 442 TARAHUMARI DANCES AND PLANT-WORSHIP dance. The deer in the pairing seasontaught them to dance their great dance, Yumaree ; and the wild turkey taughtthem their other great dance, Rutu-buree. About three oclock in the morning, noticing that the dancing flagged andwas done with no jjarticular sjiirit, Iwent down to my camp to sleep for acouple of hours, and had just rolledmyself comfortably in my blankets, when my Indian friend, the son of thehouse, aj^peared with a torch and calledto me to come, as they were about tobegin eating and drinking. Xabor and1 went with him. A medicine-manpresided at the feast, for which all thefood, beer, and rattles were placed on a. The Weesheema. blanket before the cross. As usual, some of the beer was sacrificed to thefour corners of the world, and thensome of the meat, the dogs standingaround while the latter ceremony wasgoing on, waiting for what might fallto them, and coming back to the chargeafter having been driven off bv the Ind- ians. AVe entered the hut and I satnext to the medicine-man, a seat ofhonor, vriih. Nabor next to me. Themeat, boiled to a stringy mass and with-out salt, was first given to me, but didnot prove tempting. Then a big goiudof teswaino was placed before me, withwhich I was expected to sacrifice. Ideputed this ceremony to Nabor, whowas quite at home in it. The liquorwas then offered first to the host, host-ess, and daughter, and to me, in theorder named, and then to the otherspresent. The medicine - man then began to cure the persons of the house, takinga dipper of maguey wine, over which hemade the sign of the cross with hisfinger before giving a drink of it to t

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