MASON, TEPECANO, A PIMAN LANGUAGE OF MEXICO 395 



28. ma'r'ithaha-cdun hapu' mi'cuptunio'k'im si'rkam 



they are our kinsmen similarly they also it speaking. Extremely 



29. na-'vapictoho-p-it kov avi'ciamgicta" Dirpi-'li' 



that it also grows cold, ice it simply whitens. Head-man 



30. navacho'hidaD na'nsaptuda'DgiaD kua'nantiamho'hiR j>orkc 



that he desiring that I, he said, work but I, I not wished, because 



was should, 



31. aemiciVwinrtu'giat ho'namickida'dakdat hogat'iup* 



I very tired (?) Then they working were that church 



32. nanitmo'o'imo gat'ha'hacdunavwi kunanitpuva'ptot'6 



that I there walked that our kindred with. Then I now when saw 



33. ha'chmampuacwa'daD hoira nampuwacho'liidaD 



the thing that they then that they now desiring were 



doing were, 



34. nantuda'DgiaD kugasa^mit* miamput*ot*6k* po'nok 



that I work should. And the tortilla they not call like 



35. a*'tiv ho'ganriputo'tbk- Donrka'r mi'tcu' 



ourselves; they call, "DiWkaT mi'tcu'." 



TRANSLATION 57 



It was a long time ago that I went to that other town were they 

 speak the same as we. Our kindred there speak just like our- 

 selves. It is very distant; it took me seven days to reach that 

 other town where they speak like ourselves. They speak our 

 language in two towns. I walked there to get a title, a bell and 

 a banner. In nine days I arrived. Then I asked our kindred if 

 they knew where they were. They said they would ask the others, 

 the oldest people, to see if they knew where they were, that they 

 might send them to us. It is very far; I was extremely tired 

 when I walked there. Then they told me they didn't know where 

 they were; they said that they would write to me. But they have 

 not written. I got tired of waiting for they didn't find anything. 



The title is ours, of this town, and the authorities sent me. 



s 7 Santa Maria Ocotan is the principal settlement of the Southern Tepehuane, some 

 forty miles south of the city of Durango. (Cf. Hrdlicka, Physiological and Medical Ob- 

 servations, etc., Bulletin 34, Bur. Am. Eth., p. 11; The Chichimecs, etc., p. 418; Lum- 

 holtz, Unknown Mexico, p. 469). Some of the municipal insignia of Azqueltan are said to 

 have been carried thither during one of the ubiquitous Mexican revolutions. My infor- 

 mant, Eleno Aguilar, was sent there to bring them back. 



