124 



Harshberger. — Maize : 



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It is easy to see that the Shoshonean branch learned their 

 use of maize from other tribes. The Moquis were the most 

 advanced, but they were copyists. Buschmann says : ' " Die 

 Namen fiir Maiz harnewista, hahnebeteh aus welche Formen 

 im vergleich mit pohewista [Eisen cf., also pohewista, gold] 

 und dem Namen hainena-una eines Stammes harne, hahne 

 und haine als das eigentliche Wort fiir Maiz, bekleidet mit 

 einen starken Endung ; hervor springt Tarahumara schunucu, 

 sune, Tepeguana June, Cora yurit." In other words when they 

 learned of maize, the grain was golden or glistening, like the 

 precious metals, and they therefore affixed the term wista to 

 describe the grain, or seed, more particularly. The Sonoran 

 group links together the region of the Colorado River, where 

 the Pimas dwelt, and the State of Jalisco, in latitude twenty 

 degrees north, where the Coras dwelt. It is safe to suppose 

 that an inter-tribal communication was always kept up between 

 the members of this branch ; this is sufficient to account 

 for the distribution of maize from the south into the present 

 territory of the United States, and for its presence among 

 the Zunis and Keres, who afterwards taught the Moquis of 

 later migration agricultural practice. 3 It appears that oo-um, 

 oo-oon, the Pima for maize, are related to sunu through 

 hainena une (une, oo-oon, oo-um, ou-in). The Pimas must 

 "be reconciled to the Uto-Aztecan stock. Buschmann 3 says : 

 •" Ich gehe daran aus dieser Wortsammlung die Resultate 

 zu ziehen, welche die Pima Sprache, als ein wichtiges ftinftes 

 Glied des Sonorischen Sprachstammen erweisen ; voll Sonor- 

 ischen Stoffes, in welchen sie die Tepeguana haufig sehr und 

 auffallend nahe steht ; denoch voll eigenthiimlicher Worter, 

 durchzogen von Aztekischen Resten." 



The Mayas occupied a central position in Mexico. Stoll 4 

 gives a list of words in the Maya : 



1 Buschmann, Abhand. Akad. Wissench., Berlin, 1854, 396. 



2 Cf. pages 123 and 14;. 



:: r.uschmann, Die Pima Sprache, Abhand. Akad. Wissench., Berlin, 1S56, 371. 

 4 Stoll, Zur Ethnographic Guatemala, 53. 



