Devereux] MOHAVE ETHNOPSYCHIATRY AND SUICIDE 7 



referred to simply as Case 78. One person is designated by the 

 fictitious English name "John Smith," and some very minor per- 

 sonages are designated by obviously fictitious initials, such as "X. Y." 



Whenever possible, Mohave names are cited in their complete 

 form, e.g., Hispan Taruuly, though this person is usually called 

 "Pantarau : ly." Most of the time, though not always, the desig- 

 nation of a male person by a name consisting of a single word only 

 suggests that it is a colloquial, condensed form of a more complex 

 name, which could not be reconstructed. 



Female names consist, in principle, of a gens name only, all women 

 of the Nyoltc gens being called Nyoltc, etc., though sometimes a 

 second word is appended to the basic gens name, as in the case of 

 Nyoltc Hukthar (Nyoltc coyote = crazy Nyoltc). Women who, be- 

 ing halfbreeds, have no gens name, are mentioned by their self- 

 chosen name, e.g., Hama : Utce :. 



The women of three gentes change their names slightly if they 

 happen to lose a child. I refer to a woman as "Nyortc" if, at the 

 time the reported events took place, she had already lost a child and 

 had therefore already changed her name from "Nyoltc" to "Nyortc." 

 If, however, she lost a child only after the event referred to had al- 

 ready occurred, she is designated in the text as "Nyoltc," which is the 

 name by wliich she was known at that time, instead of as "Nyortc," 

 as she was called subsequently. 



The fact that all women of a given gens have the same basic name, 

 made it necessai-y to devise some means of difl'erentiating between, 

 e.g., my informant Tcatc and some other woman also named Tcatc, 

 who, like my informant, did not have a more personalized second 

 name. In such a case I give the other woman's gens name, followed 

 by the initial of her English given or family name in parentheses: 

 Tcatc (N). In some instances, where I have to refer to several sis- 

 ters, all of whom belong to the same gens, have the same English 

 family name, and have given names beginning with the same letter 

 (such as Mary and Minnie Smith), I differentiate between these sis- 

 ters by calling them either "Mah (Ma)" and "Mah (Mi)," or else 

 simply "Ma." and Mi." 



The same policy was adopted also in regard to two men called 

 Pi:it. They are designated in the text as Pi:it (I) and Pi:it (II). 



G. D. are the author's initials. 



ABBREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS 



Words or passages in 'parentheses^ even when they occur in a direct 

 quotation of an informant, represent explanatory comments or trans- 

 lations provided by the writer. They never represent "asides" of 

 the informant himself. 



