[15] A favorite Indian holiday in Oklahoma is Memorial Day, when graves are lavishly decorated. [16] Densmore, _The Peyote Cult_. [17] Parsons, _Taos Pueblo_, 12 ff. [18] Only two cases are known of women who fully participated in meetings: Dog-woman (deceased), wife of John Red-turtle (Cheyenne) sang and beat the drum; a woman at Taos, Apekaum says, sings in meetings like men. [19] Kroeber, _The Arapaho_, 398-99; Opler, _The Influence of Aboriginal Pattern_; Parsons, _Taos Pueblo_; the rest field investigation. [20] Skinner, _Societies of the Iowa_, 725. [21] One William Richard Nebuchadnezzar West ate peyote with the Kiowa for years. Petrullo mentions one Pat Noonigan who ate with the Delaware, and the Shawnee had a white participant for some twenty years. Early white familiarity with peyote in Texas must be postulated to account for its use by Texas Rangers in the Civil War (Lumholtz, 1:358). [22] A Negro brought by the Kiowa drummed and sang along with the rest in a Shawnee meeting; the former existence of a Negro “peyote” church near Tulsa argues for a considerable amount of such contact. [23] Again excepting the Caddo, who are over-suspicious for reasons discussed later. [24] The most homogeneous meeting I attended was a special tribal Wichita one which, nevertheless, was attended by three Kiowa, four Comanche, and two Whites, beside fourteen Wichita. [25] Radin, _The Winnebago Tribe_, 415. [26] Murie, _Pawnee Indian Societies_, 638; Densmore, _The Peyote Cult_. [27] Radin, _A Sketch of the Peyote Cult_, 2; _The Winnebago Tribe_, 388. [28] Hoebel, _Northern Cheyenne Field Notes_. [29] Kroeber, _The Arapaho_, 399; Smith (Mrs. Maurice G.), _A Negro Peyote Cult_, 452, note 10; see also _Handbook of the American Indians_, 2:661. [30] Kroeber, _The Arapaho_, 404-405; see also Petrullo, _The Diabolic Root_, 101. Shawnee sometimes paint their temples; Oto use red bars below side burns. Delaware examples from Speck: red hair-part, red-blue-red-blue-red horizontal lines over the bridge of the nose and cheeks (Wilson’s Big Moon meetings); red and blue lines below and at corners of eyes (“crying for repentance”); green zigzags in yellow cheek spots, two red and one blue line at corner of eyes; all red chin bounded by a blue semilunar arc on the upper lip and up the cheeks (representing the altar “moon”); and blue red-bordered dots on each cheek-bone and forehead representing peyote-buttons (a woman’s design). [31] Radin, _Crashing Thunder_, 182. [32] Kroeber, _The Arapaho_, 403, 405. [33] Opler, _Lipan Apache Field Notes_. [34] Skinner, _Ethnology of the Ioway Indians_, 261. [35] Densmore, _Winnebago Songs of the Peyote Ceremony_. [36] Parsons, _Taos Pueblo_, 119. [37] Speck, _Notes on the Ethnology of the Osage_, 163. [38] Radin, _Crashing Thunder_, 186-87.