For this purpose they use an agave called soke.

Occasionally they use a white earth from Cusarare, called _javoncillo_; it is very soft and it is also used as white colour in decorating pottery.

When the men go into deep water to bathe they smear fat all over their bodies to guard against all kinds of bad animals in the water; women do not usually take this precaution.
A Tarahumare does not commit homicide unless he is drunk.

There are only isolated exceptions.

A _jefe politico_ (prefect) told me that in forty years he had heard of only two murders.