Wio-Hok, " Mountainvalley," earth deities, also called Mams, 56, etc. wio'in, younger brother or sister, 81 ya, sapodilla, 35 yastse, ceiba tree, 97, etc. yaskats, blue blowfly, 130 yas kuo, wild turkey, 87 yuk, small variety of deer, 87, 129 Yumil qasob, "Lords of the forests," 107

as a dainty or delicacy for its own sake; as a remedy for certain diseases; as a part of religious rites and ceremonies. These are the normal applications of clay and earth. There is, further, an abnormal or morbid use produced by or accompanying certain diseases, or due to nervous conditions.(Hooper and Mann, p. 253). In Assam "the best working classes are affected by it" (ibid., p. 252). It is likewise as common in the cities of India as among the peasantry; it prevails among all castes, regardless of race and creed.There is a medical angle to this subject which is beyond the scope of this article. It has been suggested that geophagy is a symptom of ankylostomiasis and can be subdued together with this disease (H. Prowe, Zeitschrift fur Ethnologie, 1900, p. ( 354)).Which is the cause and which is the effect seems not to be certain.bucaro pottery made of a reddish, odoriferous clay on the part of Peruvian and Portuguese women alike.When we read again and again that to people living widely apart certain clays have an agreeable and spicy flavor and that they are attracted to them irresistibly and experience a pleasant and beneficial effect on their systems, we cannot simply brand such folks as maniacs, but there must be a physiological cause for such behavior.

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is now a large straggling town on the flat, sandy, arid coast, on the east shore of the Cienaga Grande. There was an Indian settlement there up to the middle of the eighteenth century. Now all surface indications are destroyed.

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