0 a type of cactus (= a desert plant), part of which can be taken as a drug that makes you hallucinate (= see things that do not exist) or the drug itself
Peyote is collected from very distant areas and brought to their communities, where all of the community, including children, consume it.
In fact, it is not uncommon for cross stitch patterns to be beaded in peyote stitch technique.
Tubular peyote is used to make pouches or to decorate objects such as bottles or fan handles.
It is played by the water drummer during the ceremony while the singer sings songs with a peyote rattle.
In peyote stitch, beads are woven into the piece in a very similar fashion to knitting or cross stitching.
The peyote and the drinking cause the narrators ulcers to act up.
The person on quest would take a brew of dry peyote or other sacred plants, which the people believed held spiritual power.
It can only be done with an even number of beads but is easily done in either flat or tubular peyote.