A Description of a Tonkawa Peyote Meeting Held in 1902
- Source: American Anthropologist New Series Vol 41 No 3 (July – Sep 1939)
- Author: Morris Edward Opler
Anthropologist Morris Opler reflects on Samuel E. Kenoi’s participation in a peyote ceremony among the Tonkawa People that took place in 1902. Kenoi found himself in a unique circumstance: many of the indigenous participants in the ceremony were former grade school classmates of his; his joy in seeing them in this heretofore unknown role reads clearly in his article.
With Kenoi (via Opler) we see a man very much eager to understand the visionary potential of peyote. He is careful in acknowledging his own ignorant faux pas and a desire to meet the cactus on traditional Tonkawa terms.