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loudly and was cantankerous. Since I had told my sister previously that I 

 might leave my husband and come to live with her, that same night, or else 

 next morning, I just left the house with my children and went to live with my 

 sister. My husband came after me, however, and stayed with me at my sister's 

 house for about 1 or 2 weeks. Then we both went back to our own old place and 

 lived there for a while. However, since he kept on drinking, I left him once 

 more and returned to the house of my sister. He did not come after me again, 

 and that is how we were divorced. That was in 1937. 



After a while I went to Needles with my children and stayed with my aunt 

 M. H. At that time I would take a drink or two ; in fact, after leaving my hus- 

 band, I drank quite a lot. I drank only with women, however, and did not run 

 around with men. (Hama: Utce: said that she did run around with men and 

 lost the twins she bore to Huymanye :, a Yuma Indian.) 



Eventually I left the house of my aunt, and, taking my children with me, 

 went to live in the house of my brother P. 



One evening I was in town with some of my male relatives. They wanted 

 to sing Indian songs and we went to a place where we knew that there 

 would be some singing. My future (second) husband was also at that party 

 and the people asked him to sing for them. He consented and sang for 

 a while. That is how I met him. We liked each other right away and went 

 around together for the rest of the evening. After that he used to come 

 around to visit me at my brother's house. He would chop wood and help with 

 the chores (as a single girl's suitors do). My brother liked him pretty well. The 

 only thing he did not like about him was the fact that he could not seem to find 

 work, and my relatives began to think that he was lazy. He kept on coming 

 to the house for quite a while. 



Last January my first husband also happened to be at Needles. Someone 

 was giving a birthday party and a bunch of us, both men and women, were 

 drinking and doing an old Mohave dance in honor of our host's birthday. My 

 former husband did not like what I was doing and beat me up. (This is 

 atypical behavior for a deserted husband (pt. 3, pp. 91-106).) Luckily for me, 

 some people interfered and stopped him. After that I never even spoke to 

 him again. 



The next morning my present husband came to the house to get me, and I 

 moved over to his place and married him. 



(Q) My present husband belongs to the [hesitates] Nyoltc gens, I think. He 

 is about 33 years old. He was married several times before, and has children 

 of his own. He had two children by his first wife, Nyortc. He also had tw,o 

 children, one of whom died a long time ago, by his second wife, Mah. (Q) Yes, 

 Mah belong to that "famous" N. family. [See pt. 5, pp. 245-247]. (Q) I don't 

 remember who my present husband's third wife was. He was married several 

 times."" 



I am happy with my present husband. We will have been married a year 

 next January. As you see, my children are with me and they get along very 

 well with my present husband. He is a good man. 



When I fell ill after my miscarriage, we moved to Parker and he came 

 along, to be with me. At first he had a job with Mr. W., up at the Agency, 



0" According to Hama : Utce :, O : otc's second husband was first married to E. N., a Yuma 

 Indian woman, then to Mah (of the "psychopathic" family), then to Po : ta (who had 

 been Involved In two suicides. Cases 119 and 120), and then to Nyortc by whom he had 

 two children. The fact that these two lists are not entirely In accord — and that It Is 

 possible that neither list is complete and/or correctly arranged — simply shows the casual- 

 ness of marriage and divorce in contemporary Mohave society. 



