“I don’t think they had a word for it. They didn’t talk about it, just used it. If you used it you had to carry some medicine to work against it, ’cause if you got a scratch of that mixture and didn’t have this other stuff [the counter agent], you was a goner. “A long time ago one man would hunt. Some of them fellas was superstitious about using real deer horns, so they would make horns of manzanita and then cover up with a deer hide. They’d move along ... taking a long time, just like a deer. That old buck would try to get to the side away from the wind to smell you, but you kept circling around so he wouldn’t smell you. Finally you could get real close, maybe only three, four feet ... going around making sounds just like a deer. Sometimes them bucks would really believe you and want to fight and then it was dangerous. When you was close you shot that arrow into the deer right behind the shoulder blade. That way when he jumped, the shoulder blade comes back and breaks off the shaft. The man would grab the shaft and suck off the blood. Then he’d make a little fire on a flat stone and when it was hot he’d sweep off the fire and spit that on the stone and it would bubble up and disappear. Then you’d go after the deer and you’d find him laying there with blood bubbling out of his nose just like that blood bubbled on the stone.” Other rituals related to hunting dealt with the loss of hunting luck. To regain one’s luck in hunting, a sweat lodge was built, consisting of a temporary brush shelter (688-759). To insure luck it was common in the old days to bathe and rub the leaves of a certain mountain plant over one’s body. Other Washo carried a plant on their persons while hunting, to insure luck. I was unable to get my informant to give me the Washo name of this plant. Certain other special medicines are reported. One man, it is hinted, has a medicine which he rubs on his gun to insure good aim. Old hunters are said to have obtained medicine from the Miwok which would put deer to sleep. Today this medicine is a subject of esoteric humor between my informant and his son-in-law. The latter insists that the bear has a medicine which will put his father-in-law to sleep because he came upon the old man asleep under a tree one day when he should have been hunting. Although the Washo depended on ritual to assist them in hunting, it is clear that they considered a successful hunter the possessor of power beyond simple magic. Like curers or dreamers, certain hunters obviously had been blessed by spirits and were able to outthink and outsmart animals and therefore were particularly good hunters. At least some of the Washo who hunt today attempt to give the impression that their success is based on something more than luck or skill.