ILLUSTRATIONS
CHAPTER FRONTISPIECES
Prologue: The mescaline molecule.
Chapter 1: A bas relief, Chavín circular plaza, c. 1200 BCE. Drawing by Pauline Stringfellow for Richard L. Burger, Chavín and the Origins of Andean Civilization, Thames & Hudson, 1992.
Chapter 2: Anhalonium williamsii by Paul Christoph Hennings, 1888. Courtesy of https://sacredcacti.com/blog/lewinii/
Chapter 3: Peyote ceremony, ritual objects. From Weston La Barre, The Peyote Cult, 1938, with the kind permission of Crescent Moon Publishing.
Chapter 4: Silas Weir Mitchell in his study. Printed in the Topeka State Journal, 28 October 1902.
Chapter 5: The Peyote Ritual by Monroe Tsa Toke, 1957. © Leslie Van Ness Denman.
Chapter 6: Merck Pharmaceutical Co.’s ‘Mescalinium-sulfat’ solution in a bottle.
Chapter 7: Portrait of Nena Stachurska by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (with peyote and alcohol, after three days without smoking), 1929, pastel on paper. Courtesy of National Museum, Poznań.
Chapter 8: Stage II (Mescaline Drawing with Cones) by Julian Trevelyan, 1936. Courtesy of Bethlem Museum of the Mind.
Chapter 9: A photograph of Aldous Huxley, 1952. Keystone Pictures USA / Alamy Stock Photo.
Chapter 10: ‘Mescalito’, tattoo art. © 2016 Marek Kaot.
Epilogue: ‘Arrangement of Interior of Tipi for Peyote Meeting’. From Weston La Barre, The Peyote Cult, 1938, with the kind permission of Crescent Moon Publishing.
PLATES
1. San Pedro cacti growing at Chavín de Huantar, 2003. Photo © Aliya Saleem.
2. Stirrup-Spout Vessel with Feline and Cactus, 900/200 BCE, north coast of Peru. The Art Institute of Chicago.
3. A hand-coloured lithograph after an original drawing by Walter Hood Fitch, Curtis’ Botanical Magazine, Vol. 73, 1847, plate 4296. © The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
4. Le peyotl: la plante qui fait les yeux émerveillés by Alexandre Rouhier, 1926.
5. A Huichol mara’akame collecting peyote. Hemis / Alamy Stock Photo.
6. The Rite Begins by Alejandro Lopez Torres, 1997, coloured yarn on board. From the collection of Wade Davis, courtesy of the October Gallery, London.
7. A photograph of James Mooney. Courtesy of the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
8. A photograph of Quanah Parker of the Kwahadi Comanche, standing in front of a tipi.
9. Peyote Ceremony by James Mooney, 1893. Courtesy of the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution (gelatin glass negative BAE GN 01778a 06305400).
10. Peyote Medicine Man by James Auchiah, 1973, tempera on paper. Courtesy of the Arthur and Shifra Silberman Collection, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1996.027.0014.
11. Portrait of Nena Stachurska, Merck Mescaline + C by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, 1929, pastel on paper. From the Teodor Białynicki-Birula collection, Museum of Middle Pomerania, Słupsk, Poland.
12. Mescaline Painting – Red and Blue Abstract by an anonymous artist, 1936. Courtesy of Bethlem Museum of the Mind.
13. Green Abstract by Basil Beaumont (Basil Ivan Rakoczi), 1936. Courtesy of Bethlem Museum of the Mind, with the kind permission of Christopher Rakoczi.
14. The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley. Cover art by John Woodcock, Chatto & Windus, 1954.
15. ‘In the Magic Land of Mescaline’, cover illustration for a feature by Claude William Chamberlain, Fate, January 1956.