[26] To be sure the pattern of gift-giving is deep-rooted in the Plains, yet it is a curious coincidence at least that Wilson should have taken peyote to the Quapaw, who own the largest lead and zinc mining fields in the world, and the Osage, made notoriously wealthy through oil. Anderson told Speck that the Osage had given Wilson $200 for building them a moon, and Charles Tyner (Quapaw) told me that he and Victor Griffin (Quapaw) had received $500 for an altar in one sum and some hundreds of dollars in money gifts later. The Osage once gave Anderson $20 and his wife $10 because his uncle, John Wilson, had built their moon (Speck, _op. cit._, 551). Wilson even used to charge $1 per person for the sweatbaths he gave before meetings. [27] Petrullo, _The Diabolic Root_, 82; cf. 45, 95. [28] Petrullo, _op. cit._, 45; cf. 104. [29] His followers, in any case, betray their expectancy of financial reward. It was remarked, for example, that the impecunious Seneca gave Anderson only his trainfare when he brought peyote to them. Griffin, more business-like, always arranges beforehand the amount of compensation he is to receive. [30] Cf. the case of the Caddo Alfred Taylor whom the Osage invited to introduce the basic Caddo moon—even the Osage are turning from the Wilson rite. [31] Petrullo, _op. cit._, 43. [32] _Idem_, 31-32. [33] War Eagle, letter to Speck from Dewey, Oklahoma April 1, 1932. We believe Petrullo, as shown by this letter, has over-emphasized the decadence of the basic rite at Dewey. The Wilson-Elk Hair antagonism is shown in even trivial ways. The latter use the feathers of swift-flying birds to “hurry up” the medicine cure, the faster the singing of songs, the quicker the cure. The Wilson cultists, who sing slowly, accuse the little moon followers of “putting too much vigor and speed into their healing and praying meetings as is typified by their inclination to decorate their Peyote paraphernalia with Hummingbird feathers, symbolical of the acme of speed.” (Speck, _Notes on the Life_, 551; thanks are due to the University of Pennsylvania Committee of Faculty Research, for Grant No. 93 on which his work was done.) APPENDIX 8: CHRISTIAN ELEMENTS IN THE PEYOTE CULT