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Vintage News Articles & Finds
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"I received a draft of a beautiful Tree penciled on a large sheet of white paper bearing ripe fruit I saw it plainly it looked very singular and curious to me. I have since learned that this tree grows in the Spirit Land. Afterwards the spirit showed me plainly the branches, leaves, and fruit presented or drawn upon paper. The leaves were checked and the same color you see here. I entreated Mother Ann to tell me the name of this tree which she did by moving the hand of a medium to write twice over Your Tree is the Tree of Life."
- Hannah Cohoon, 1845
Between 1837 and 1850 the Shaker's of Massachusetts were going through a spiritual revival. Called the Era of Manifestation, the usually reserved Shakers would receive visions, which they called gifts, that they expressed in song, dance and drawings.
One of these Shakers, Hannah Cohoon, received a vision of The Tree Of Life. Having never seen this plant, she drew her vision.
Interestingly her vision of the Tree Of Life had groups of leaves resembling the cannabis leaf complete with red hairs coming from the flowers.
Hannah named her painting from her vision the Tree Of Life but gave the painting a second name...
The Blazing Tree...
The Tree of Life aka The Blazing Tree by Hannah Cohoon, 1845
- Hannah Cohoon, 1845
Between 1837 and 1850 the Shaker's of Massachusetts were going through a spiritual revival. Called the Era of Manifestation, the usually reserved Shakers would receive visions, which they called gifts, that they expressed in song, dance and drawings.
One of these Shakers, Hannah Cohoon, received a vision of The Tree Of Life. Having never seen this plant, she drew her vision.
Interestingly her vision of the Tree Of Life had groups of leaves resembling the cannabis leaf complete with red hairs coming from the flowers.
Hannah named her painting from her vision the Tree Of Life but gave the painting a second name...
The Blazing Tree...
The Tree of Life aka The Blazing Tree by Hannah Cohoon, 1845
"The root is of nearly medium size, sending forth no branches or leaves above the ground, but with a certain woolliness adhering to it on account of which it could not aptly be figured by me. Both men and women are said to be harmed by it. It appears to be of a sweetish taste and moderately hot. Ground up and applied to painful joints, it is said to give relief. Wonderful properties are attributed to this root, if any faith can be given to what is commonly said among them on this point. It causes those devouring it to be able to foresee and to predict things…."
-Dr Francisco Hernández, who as personal physician of King Philip II of Spain was sent to study Aztec medicine in 1570
Sam Dick at Peyote Altar during a vision ceremony - 1930's
Visions of America
Down a winding canyon perched above the mighty Rio Grande lies record of an ancient American rite. A true vision of America...
Found in the Shumla Caves on the Texas side of the Rio Grande, amazing cave art dating back to at least 5000bce fully cover the curved cave walls. Amazing scenes of American history blur the line between art and reality...
While the art above the soil is a vision of yesterday, the soil below holds the true visions of early Americans...
view of the Shumla Cave Site on Texas side of Rio Grande River
On a dig in 'Cave 5' within the Shumla caves site a find was made. With psychedelic figures watching from the walls above, some buttons were found in the soil.
These buttons were not gold or silver but a much more magical blend... The find of buttons was Peyote!
Cave Art at Panther cave site near peyote findings in cave 5. (Possible representation of peyote ceremony)
"Art thou a soothsayer? Dost thou foretell events by reading omens, interpreting dreams or by tracing circles and figures on water? Dost thou garnish with flower garlands the places where idols are kept? Dost thou suck to blood of others? Dost thou wander about at night, calling upon demons to help thee? Hast thou drunk Peyote or given it to others to drink, in order to discover secrets or to discover where stolen or lost articles were?"
- Priest Padre Nicolás de Leon, questions asked to 'potential' native converts- 1760's
The find of peyote wasn't totally unexpected, the carbon dating was...
The specimens of peyote found at the site dated to between 3780 and 3660 BCE making this the earliest evidence of human use of Peyote. Found on American soil, it can be said this is the first vision of America...
Comanche Indian peyote ceremony - Great Plains, date unknown (pre1900)
"Close to the musician was seated the leader of the singing, whose business it was to mark time. Each had his assistants to take his place when he should become fatigued. Nearby was place a tray filled with Peyote, which is a diabolical root that is ground up and drunk by them so that they may not become weakened by the exhausting effects of so long a function, which they begin by forming as large a circle of men and women as could occupy the space that had been swept off for this purpose. One after the other, they went dancing in a ring or marking time with their feet, keeping in the middle the musician and choir-master whom they invited, and singing in the same unmusical tune that he set them. They would dance all night, from five o'clock in the evening to seven o'clock in the morning, without stopping nor leaving the circle. When the dance was ended, all stood who could hold themselves on their feet; for the majority, from the Peyote and wine which they drank, were unable to utilize their legs."
-a Spanish missionary in Nayarit recorded a Peyote ritual of the Cora tribe in the seventeenth century
The ceremonies and use of peyote have endured long after Spanish conquerors first demonized the plant for its "satanic trickery".
The peyote ceremony passed down from long ago was documented in 1930 by The North American Indian, vol. 19.
Although the words to the songs have long changed from heavy Christian indoctrination, little else has since the time of the Aztecs. The ceremony of American vision quests persist nearly the same to this day.
Group of Kiowa Indians during Peyote ceromony in tipi - Great Plains, 1892
-Dr Francisco Hernández, who as personal physician of King Philip II of Spain was sent to study Aztec medicine in 1570
Sam Dick at Peyote Altar during a vision ceremony - 1930's
Visions of America
Down a winding canyon perched above the mighty Rio Grande lies record of an ancient American rite. A true vision of America...
Found in the Shumla Caves on the Texas side of the Rio Grande, amazing cave art dating back to at least 5000bce fully cover the curved cave walls. Amazing scenes of American history blur the line between art and reality...
While the art above the soil is a vision of yesterday, the soil below holds the true visions of early Americans...
view of the Shumla Cave Site on Texas side of Rio Grande River
On a dig in 'Cave 5' within the Shumla caves site a find was made. With psychedelic figures watching from the walls above, some buttons were found in the soil.
These buttons were not gold or silver but a much more magical blend... The find of buttons was Peyote!
Cave Art at Panther cave site near peyote findings in cave 5. (Possible representation of peyote ceremony)
"Art thou a soothsayer? Dost thou foretell events by reading omens, interpreting dreams or by tracing circles and figures on water? Dost thou garnish with flower garlands the places where idols are kept? Dost thou suck to blood of others? Dost thou wander about at night, calling upon demons to help thee? Hast thou drunk Peyote or given it to others to drink, in order to discover secrets or to discover where stolen or lost articles were?"
- Priest Padre Nicolás de Leon, questions asked to 'potential' native converts- 1760's
The find of peyote wasn't totally unexpected, the carbon dating was...
The specimens of peyote found at the site dated to between 3780 and 3660 BCE making this the earliest evidence of human use of Peyote. Found on American soil, it can be said this is the first vision of America...
Comanche Indian peyote ceremony - Great Plains, date unknown (pre1900)
"Close to the musician was seated the leader of the singing, whose business it was to mark time. Each had his assistants to take his place when he should become fatigued. Nearby was place a tray filled with Peyote, which is a diabolical root that is ground up and drunk by them so that they may not become weakened by the exhausting effects of so long a function, which they begin by forming as large a circle of men and women as could occupy the space that had been swept off for this purpose. One after the other, they went dancing in a ring or marking time with their feet, keeping in the middle the musician and choir-master whom they invited, and singing in the same unmusical tune that he set them. They would dance all night, from five o'clock in the evening to seven o'clock in the morning, without stopping nor leaving the circle. When the dance was ended, all stood who could hold themselves on their feet; for the majority, from the Peyote and wine which they drank, were unable to utilize their legs."
-a Spanish missionary in Nayarit recorded a Peyote ritual of the Cora tribe in the seventeenth century
The ceremonies and use of peyote have endured long after Spanish conquerors first demonized the plant for its "satanic trickery".
The peyote ceremony passed down from long ago was documented in 1930 by The North American Indian, vol. 19.
Although the words to the songs have long changed from heavy Christian indoctrination, little else has since the time of the Aztecs. The ceremony of American vision quests persist nearly the same to this day.
Group of Kiowa Indians during Peyote ceromony in tipi - Great Plains, 1892
Visions of America continued, part 4 of 4...
Group of five Kiowa Indians in field on peyote vision. Great Plains, 1892
"There is another herb like tunas [Opuntia spp.] of the earth. It is called Peiotl. It is white. It is found in the north country. Those who eat or drink it see visions either frightful or laughable. This intoxication lasts two or three days and then ceases. It is a common food of the Chichimeca, for it sustains them and gives them courage to fight and not feel fear nor hunger nor thirst. And they say that it protects them from all danger."
-Bernardino de Sahagún, late 1500's
Like the sixteen century Jesuits before them, conservative Americas had "diabolic fantasies" about this holy drug.
In 1918 the 'Hayden bill', named after the conservative AZ congress man Carl Hayden, was passed in the House of Representatives forwarding the push to make Peyote illegal on a federal level...
Although the Hayden bill was later shot down in the Congress, Native Americans continued to be prosecuted for peyote use until the American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978.
As for Non Native Americans, peyote is listed by the United States DEA as a Schedule I controlled substance and fully enforced...
Three Navajo Indians in court for law violation in use of peyote, San Bernardino, Calif., 1962
“In consciousness dwells the wondrous, with it man attains the realm beyond the material, and the Peyote tells us, where to find it.”
-- Antonin Artaud
Huichol Peyote Festival - New Mexico, 1938
Group of five Kiowa Indians in field on peyote vision. Great Plains, 1892
"There is another herb like tunas [Opuntia spp.] of the earth. It is called Peiotl. It is white. It is found in the north country. Those who eat or drink it see visions either frightful or laughable. This intoxication lasts two or three days and then ceases. It is a common food of the Chichimeca, for it sustains them and gives them courage to fight and not feel fear nor hunger nor thirst. And they say that it protects them from all danger."
-Bernardino de Sahagún, late 1500's
Like the sixteen century Jesuits before them, conservative Americas had "diabolic fantasies" about this holy drug.
In 1918 the 'Hayden bill', named after the conservative AZ congress man Carl Hayden, was passed in the House of Representatives forwarding the push to make Peyote illegal on a federal level...
Although the Hayden bill was later shot down in the Congress, Native Americans continued to be prosecuted for peyote use until the American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978.
As for Non Native Americans, peyote is listed by the United States DEA as a Schedule I controlled substance and fully enforced...
Three Navajo Indians in court for law violation in use of peyote, San Bernardino, Calif., 1962
“In consciousness dwells the wondrous, with it man attains the realm beyond the material, and the Peyote tells us, where to find it.”
-- Antonin Artaud
Huichol Peyote Festival - New Mexico, 1938
"A Cambodian soldier takes a marijuana break during a lull in the fighting, 1974"
A Cambodian soldier takes a marijuana break during a lull in the fighting around Prek Tapao, 7 miles south east of Phnom Penh. The soldier keeps the pipe, made from a hefty length of bamboo, going with a lamp made from a 60mm mortar shell. Prek Tapao, Cambodia 1974
A Cambodian soldier takes a marijuana break during a lull in the fighting around Prek Tapao, 7 miles south east of Phnom Penh. The soldier keeps the pipe, made from a hefty length of bamboo, going with a lamp made from a 60mm mortar shell. Prek Tapao, Cambodia 1974
"The vicious part that potent marihuana plays in stimulating certain melody makers to fantastic heights of inspiration and the efforts made to eliminate the evil."
A 1938 illustration from an article in the San Francisco Chronicle connects marijuana use with America’s black population.
A 1938 illustration from an article in the San Francisco Chronicle connects marijuana use with America’s black population.
Arizona Republican
February 24, 1918
Article: The Devil in a New Dress
"After eating 36 of these peyote I got just like drunk only more so, and I felt kind of good, but more than when I drink whiskey; and then after that I began to see a big bunch of snakes crawling around in front of me, and a feeling like as if I was cold came over me. The secretary of the Sacred Peyote Society was sitting near me, and I ask him if he heard young kittens. It sounded as if they were right close to me: and then I sat still for a long time and I saw a big black cat coming toward me, and I felt him just like a tiger walking up on my legs toward me; and when I felt his claws I jumped back and kind of made a sound as if I was afraid"
Arizona Republican- February 24, 1918
February 24, 1918
Article: The Devil in a New Dress
"After eating 36 of these peyote I got just like drunk only more so, and I felt kind of good, but more than when I drink whiskey; and then after that I began to see a big bunch of snakes crawling around in front of me, and a feeling like as if I was cold came over me. The secretary of the Sacred Peyote Society was sitting near me, and I ask him if he heard young kittens. It sounded as if they were right close to me: and then I sat still for a long time and I saw a big black cat coming toward me, and I felt him just like a tiger walking up on my legs toward me; and when I felt his claws I jumped back and kind of made a sound as if I was afraid"
Arizona Republican- February 24, 1918
Kabul Times. (Kabul, Afghanistan),
2/1/1972
Article: Twenty five gallons of distilled hashish worth $6 million seized here
"As far as is known, this complex distilling apparatus is the only one of its kind to exist in the world. Basically, pure grain alcohol is boiled with hashish in block form, and broken down into liquid essence of hashish which, in its final stage, is twelve times stronger than the original hash block."
2/1/1972
Article: Twenty five gallons of distilled hashish worth $6 million seized here
"As far as is known, this complex distilling apparatus is the only one of its kind to exist in the world. Basically, pure grain alcohol is boiled with hashish in block form, and broken down into liquid essence of hashish which, in its final stage, is twelve times stronger than the original hash block."
