Academic Article · 1940
Teonanacatl
The Narcotic Mushroom of the Aztecs
Schultes's botanical account of his 1938-39 fieldwork with Blas Pablo Reko among the Mazatec, tracing the teonanácatl rediscovery from Reko's 1923 letter through Robert Weitlaner's 1936 visit to Huautla de Jiménez. Schultes identifies the mushroom as Paneolus campanulatus var. sphinctrinus.
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Transcript
No transcript hosted (text postdates 1930 and is not a US Government work). Excerpt below verified against the Internet Archive scan (JSTOR stable URL 663232).
"In 1936, Mr Robert J. Weitlaner of Mexico City visited the capital of the Mazatec region of Oaxaca, Huautla de Jimenez, and learned of the use of certain mushrooms in witchcraft and divination among these primitive peoples. He secured a few samples of the narcotic plants and sent them to Reko who forwarded several pieces to the Botanical Museum of Harvard University for identification."
About this source
- Creator
- Richard Evans Schultes
- Date
- July-September 1940
- Type
- Academic Article
- Held by
- Schultes, Richard Evans. "Teonanacatl: The Narcotic Mushroom of the Aztecs." American Anthropologist, n.s., 42, no. 3, pt. 1 (July-September 1940): 429-443.
- Language
- English
- Region
- Mexico
- Text
- Reading text. Reading text.
- Rights
- In copyright (published 1940). A scan is hosted by the Internet Archive; used here only as a short verified excerpt per this project's pre-1930 hosting rule.