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This also accords with the Indian tradition that beans had been 
secured from the white man, but that they had grown teparies 
“long time.’’ Distributional and other evidence also points to 
the more southern origin of beans, which in all probability were 
brought northward by the earlier Spanish settlers and missionaries. 
Teparies 
The name tepary or /epari (Spanish) originated from the Papago 
words sidte pave; std-te meaning white and pdve having reference 
to the kind of plant to distinguish it from the mén or bean. In 
like manner they speak of sdam (yellow) pave and spate mdok 
(muddy) péve. In addition to the very common statement, above 
quoted, that they (the Indians) had secured beans from the white 
man, but had grown pdve a long time, several of the old men and 
women of the Papago tribe in widely separated villages gave the 
strikingly uniform answer that their forefathers got teparies from a 
people which had once inhabited that region (the Baboquivari and 
Quijotoa district of southern Arizona), and had grown these beans 
in the same valleys where they are'now grown, but that these 
people went away “‘long ago.’”’ However, two different old women 
said that they remembered having gathered dark colored wild 
teparies during their childhood in the mountains farther south (pre- 
sumably in Sonora). It is a common statement by Mexicans that 
the yellow tepary grows wild in Sonora and makes vines like a 
morning glory in the damp soil of canyons. Weight is further given 
to these statements and traditions concerning the local origin of 
these varieties by the greater resistance of teparies to extremes of 
climate than is possessed by beans. Adaptation through a longer 
series of years, or perhaps, as the present evidence seems to indicate, 
even domestication from the wild state in the same localities where 
now grown, has rendered them more hardy than the exotic beans. 
When the irrigating water or rains fail, teparies will frequently 
make a good crop when beans are a total failure. In a field of red 
Indian beans belonging to a Pima Indian near Sacaton in the fall of 
1910, in which the crop was a total failure on account of an insuffi- 
cient water supply, the writer noted a few yellow tepary plants 
growing as an admixture among the beans. Under conditions such 

