It is said that the bundle has been handed down for a number of generations, since it was obtained from the Pawnee, all in one family, which must have benefited considerably, one would think, from the valuable presents necessary to join the society.... The [bundle’s] taboo was very strict, forbidding its owners to break the bones[23] of any animal under any circumstances. They must never allow the bundle to touch the ground either.... When not in use, it was kept carefully wrapped in hides or canvas so as to exclude the weather, hanging on a pole standing just east of the owner’s lodge, in front of the doorway. In addressing the bundle, they called it “Grandfather,” and made offerings to it by throwing tobacco on the ground near the pole where it hung. On festal occasions the sweet smoke of burning cedar twigs was wafted upon it as an offering. In time of war, a special man was appointed to carry it, as was the case with most war bundles. Like them, too, it was opened when the enemy was sighted, when its enclosed amulets were put on by the warriors. Tooting their war-whistles, they rushed gaily into battle, confident of the Red Medicine’s protection. Mrs. Voegelin[24] quotes an informant on a Shawnee use of mescal in a war connection: Čalikwa’s grandfather gave him one of these mescal beans (manitowimskočii’Oa). This old man knew prayers about these beans.... He had four grandsons. He made a prayer to give each of these boys a bean—one apiece.... He made a prayer about how the Creator made these beans and how they’re used, using tobacco ... out in the woods; he built a fire, where he offered prayer. This old man wanted his grandsons to be warriors. So he told the first grandson to swallow one of those beans. When the first boy swallowed the bean, the bean came out. He told the boy, “You can never be a powerful man or anything; there’s something in the way, that that bean didn’t want to stay (inside you).” This happened to three of the boys. The last grandson to take the bean was Čalikwa; when he took it, the bean didn’t come out. So when he saw his grandson keeping that bean, the old man was thankful. He told him, “Now you have a power; any time you see a battle you’ll be the leader.” [And so he was in 1865, when the Shawnee almost wiped out the Tonkawa in battle.] HISTORY OF THE DIFFUSION OF PEYOTISM