Native Anmerican Beers by Weston LaBarre

[boomer2]

Part One:

From a 1938 issue of American Anthropologist, I would like to present an article om Native American Beers by the late Dike University anthropologist, Weston LaBarre.

Reference:

LaBarre, Weston.  1938b. Native American beers. American Anthropologist vol. 40:224-237.

LaBarre and Richard Evans Schultes were two students at Harvard and Duke University, respectively, and they were both lucky to get funding to attend an American Native Church Ceremony on peyote and LaBarre, after two trips, wrote the definitive book on the peyote religion, "The Peyote Cult."

He is also the author of "The Ghost Dance: The Origins of Religion."

A masterpiece on hallucinogens and out past divine insight that delves into our religions and their beginnings.
Here is the first and second paragraph of this article which is over 60 years old. A shame. I had a similar pamphlet of South American Medicinal Plants which I gave as a gift to Dick Schultes. IT was a private individual one time only journal-like publication printed privately in the early 1950s. I did however, keep the journal which this article came from.

Although conservative opinion would consider contended aboriginality of New World distilled liquors as yet undemonstrated, there is ample evidence of the wide distribution both in North and South America of native undistilled alcoholic liquors, or beers and wines. Since the plant substances of which these are made vary considerably, and since the usage of terms has sometimes been rather loose, we define these terms before discussing the distribution of the liquors themselves.

Aguardiente (contraction of Sp. agua ardiente, "burning water"), properly speaking a brandy of Spain and Portugal, generally made of grapes; but in Latin America it is applied to various spirituous liquors. In California and New Mexico, the name is used for American whiskey, in Mexico for pulque, while the aguardiente of the Chiricahua is an undistilled yucca beer.(1)

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See below for part two

boomer2

[boomer2]

Part Two of Weston LaBarre's native American Beers:

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See Below for Part 3 of this thread.

Boomer2

[boomer2]

Part 3 of Weston LaBarre's native American Beers.

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See Below for last 2 pages of this article on Native American beers.

boomer2

[boomer2]

Part 4 of Weston LaBarre's native American beers.

Be sure to read the last page carefully and read the footnotes on the bottom of the page that describes the use of other entheogenic plants and drink mixtures from marijuana to ayahuasca and other visionary plants known in 1938.  Only thing missing was the mention of mushrooms of the Nahuatl speaking nations.  While Schultes wrote a paper on peyote in 1938, it wasn't until 1939 and 40 that he published his two major papers on the mushrooms of the Aztecs.  Those were the papers responsible for Wasson's dedication to finding the mushrooms in Mexico

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Boomer2

Hope everyone likes this bit of information from the past.

[Zaka]

Irie,
Wow great post boomer,
You excel once again.
Holly crap....That urine dance in the footnotes makes me wonder if it was used the same way as the Siberian shamans, but using datura instead of aminita.
What'd rekkon.
Respect
Z