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Ololiuhqui, Peyotl, and Teonanácatl in the Florentine Codex
Sahagún’s Book 11 on herbs that intoxicate
c. 1577
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Bernardino de Sahagún
Indigenous Knowledge, Ethnobotany
Hongos monteses in Durán's Historia de las Indias de Nueva España
Mushrooms, coronations, and the feast of revelations
c. 1581; published 1867
Source
José F. Ramírez
Indigenous Knowledge, Ethnobotany
Ololiuhqui and Peyote in Idolatrías y supersticiones de los indios
Colonial anti-idolatry texts on divination, healing, and visionary plants
1629-1656; published 1892
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Pedro Ponce de León
Indigenous Knowledge, Ethnobotany
Niopo among the Otomac in Humboldt and Bonpland's Personal Narrative
Orinoco snuff, Acacia niopo, and curupa in an 1821 travel narrative
1821
Source
Helen Maria Williams
Indigenous Knowledge, Ethnobotany
Paricá among the Mura in Spix and Martius's Reise in Brasilien
A German travel account of Amazonian snuff, ceremony, and intoxication
1831
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Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
Indigenous Knowledge, Ethnobotany
Ayahuasca in Villavicencio's Geografía de la República del Ecuador
An 1858 Ecuadorian account of ayahuasca visions and divination
1858
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Manuel Villavicencio
Indigenous Knowledge, Ethnobotany
Le Gabon
1865
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Marie-Théophile Griffon du Bellay
Ethnobotany
Caapi and Niopo in “On Some Remarkable Narcotics of the Amazon Valley and Orinoco”
Richard Spruce on ayahuasca, yopo/paricá, and Amazonian medicine-men
c. 1870; published 1908
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Richard Spruce
Indigenous Knowledge, Ethnobotany
Teonanacatl
The Narcotic Mushroom of the Aztecs
July-September 1940
Academic Article
Richard Evans Schultes
Ethnobotany, Psilocybin
A New Mexican Psychotropic Drug
1962
Academic Article
R. Gordon Wasson
Ethnobotany
The Narcotic Pepper
The Chemistry and Pharmacology of Piper methysticum and Related Species
1973
Academic Article
Alexander Shulgin
Ethnobotany, Kava
Virola theiodora como alucinógena e tóxica
1974
Academic Article
J. G. Soares Maia
DMT, Ethnobotany