Peyote Music
New York, N.Y: Johnson Reprint Corp. 1964. Paperback. Tan wraps with black lettering; 104 pp; 62 unnumbered pages; music. VG (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block.). Item #186017
"The peyote cult, a religious movement nativistic in nature and often combining Christian with pagan elements, is active today and is spreading among many of the surviving groups of North American Indians. The cult is distributed generally in the western Plains area of the United States with extensions northward as far as Canada and into the Southwest as far as the pueblo of Taos and the Navaho and Apache country. Groups of individuals ranging in number from two or three to thirty or forty gather in a night-long meeting. In the course of the ceremony they make ritually prescribed gestures, listen to the prayers and exhortations of older members and the leader, consume portions of a small fleshy cactus known as "peyote," and take turns singing peyote songs."--From introductory statement (page 11).
OCLC: 890816
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