With a flourish of his traditional rattle, the “medicine man” handed out tiny globules of blackened peyote, regaling us with the extreme lengths he has had to go to bring us his sacred succulents.

To begin, the leader, sings the opening song, while the man wit the peyote drum keeps a rapid, even drumbeat and sings along at his right. To the left of the lead, sits a man with a cedar branch.