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at a time wlien they were building a shed for the trucks. Then he was laid 

 off for a long time. After a while he got another job, driving a triick, in 

 connection M'ith some rond work and stayed on that job until last month. 

 Then my brother-in-law Kamtoska Huanyeily, spoke to Mr. S., who thereupon 

 came down here and asked my husband to work on the Parker Dam, which 

 is just being built. He works at the head gate of the dam. We are getting 

 along all right on what my husband earns. My sister F., Kamtoska Hua- 

 nyeily's wife, used to live in this house, and it is a nice place to live in. 



(Q) I myself am not related to your old friend Tcatc, but my brother-in-law 

 Kamtoska Huanyeily is her grandnephew. I am also a little bit related to that 

 troublesome N. family, of the Mah gens. They are a strange family. I know 

 that Mah is a shaman, because she treated a woman who was staying here. That 

 woman's name was Vi : mak ; she is a relative of Kamtoska Huanyeily. Mah 

 could not cure her, however, and she died (Case 93) . (Q) Kwathany Hi : wa, the 

 shaman, is just a litle bit related to me. He is definitely not a close relative of 

 mine, (Q) I would not be afraid to interpret for you (even though he is a witch) , 

 if you should want to work with him, but he is ill and is "drying up." He is going 

 to die. (Pulyirk said: "He is suffering from huyatc avi : rk (breath finished), 

 because he spent all his power bewitching people.") (Q) It is possible that some- 

 one may have bewitched him at last. I too had heard that Kwathany Hi : wa had 

 bewitched a number of people, 



(Q) My favorite amusement is going to the movies, I also like to dance 

 (Mohave dances) and I like to listen to songs, especially to the bird songs. I 

 myself can't sing Mohave Indian songs. I also like to do housework. (Q) I 

 really do. (She also went horseback riding once, cf. below.) 



(Q) Yes, I do dream. (Q) I don't recall what I dreamed last night. Most of 

 my dreams are about someone dying." (Q) My recurrent dreams are about 

 death. I see my dead relatives in a coflSn.** After such dreams I wake up 

 crying. These are bad dreams — suma : tc Itcem. I dream that I am with them 

 and am talking to them. (Q) I do not dream of being given food by them, or of 

 eating with them (i. e., she does not have a nyevedhi : type of illness.) (Q) I do 

 not dream about my dead foster parents: only about my other dead relatives. 

 (Q) I am very fond of my relatives. 



(Q) I have falling dreams. (Q) I also dream of falling Into water or of 

 swimming. (Q) I cannot recall whether I ever dreamed about climbing. (Q) I 

 never dreamed of running on all fours. Once I dreamed that I was flying, but 

 I do not recall the details of that dream. 



(Q) I never had a real suffocation nightmare. I did dream however, of being 

 late ; I was running and not getting anywhere. I also dream of people chasing me. 

 They are gyyisies. (Q) I saw real gypsies at the carnival at Needles. (Q) Not 

 at the carnival which I saw as a child, when I was spanked for being scared and 

 for crying. I saw the gypsies only last winter, at Needles. I must have heard 

 about gypsies at school, or else I may have read about them in storybooks. 

 (Q) I guess the closest Mohave equivalents of the bogeyman would be wolves 

 and coyotes; also ghosts (nyevedhi:). 



Not so long ago I dreamed of hikwi : r snakes. There were quite a lot of them. 

 I looked down on them and was afraid to get off the wagon. They looked like 

 snakes. There was more to that dream, but this is all I can recall, (See pt, 

 4, pp. 117-128, regarding the forgetting of snake dreams.) 



"This Indicates unconscloas death wishes, which elicit guilt feelings and depression. 

 •*Even nowadays the Mohave do not use coffins. They practice cremation. 



