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Mrs. Hilyera Anyay, wife of the former, was a good informant 

 about her own experiences. 



Hil<ye : t was generally believed to be more of a witch than a healer. 

 He was an elderly man, rather suspicious, distinctly peculiar and 

 neurotic in some ways and — judging by his statements — considerably 

 more autistic than other Mohave shamans I have known and worked 

 with. 



Hama: Utce;, a mixbreed woman approximately 32 years of age 

 when I first met her, was — and perhaps still is — the best educated 

 Mohave. She is an alert, witty, extremely intelligent, moody, quick- 

 tempered and warmhearted person, who was my principal inter- 

 preter, occasionally also my informant, and at all times one of the 

 best and most loyal friends I have ever had (pi. 10, a) . 



Hitcury Kutask(w)elva, who is Hama: Utcet's son, I have 

 watched grow from a charming and intelligent, though tempera- 

 mental, small boy of about 6, into a kindly and intelligent young 

 man, generally liked and respected by all. He was, in his early teens, 

 an outstandingly able interpreter in my work with children, and has 

 always been a good friend to me (pi. 9, d). 



Sumuramura, now deceased, was Hama : Utce : 's husband, and 

 Hitcu:y Kutask(w)elva's stepfather. He was a good friend and 

 the perfect incarnation of everything a good, patient, industrious, 

 sweet-tempered, humorous, and generous man should be. He acted as 

 interpreter on one occasion, and furnished supplementary information 

 on a variety of topics (pi. 10, 6) . 



Pulyi : k, a nearly blind old man, was an excellent linguistic in- 

 formant, highly skilled in unraveling the meaning of condensed Mo- 

 have names and ritual texts. 



E. S. is a well-educated young Mohave man, who was a reliable 

 and skillful interpreter and valued friend during one of my field 

 trips. 



Comitless other Mohave friends and acquaintances provided valu- 

 able bits of information on a variety of topics and sometimes also 

 about themselves. 



NAMES 



In most cases I give each person's real and principal Mohave 

 name, usually followed by its English translation (e.g., Hivsu: 

 Tupo: ma=burned raw). In a few instances it was found expedient 

 to list all of a person's old and new names; in such cases, however, 

 the person is always referred to in other passages only by his prin- 

 cipal name. In at least one instance I have, for reasons of tact, 

 decided to use not the principal, but the subsidiary or discarded name 

 of a person. One boy, whose Mohave name is not known to me, is 



