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By the way, we had a case last month that would have interested you. It 

 was a woman (Kumadhi: Atat) that went crazy (syphilis). Over a year ago 

 I brought her down from the town of N. and we were going to take her to Ph. 

 State Hospital but her sister wouldn't agree to it, so we took her back to N. 

 About a week later she was in the city jail in N. and they committed her to 

 Ph. State Hospital. It seems she died a few weeks later and none of the folks 

 were notified. A year later some Indians going through the town of S. stopped 

 off and asked about her and found that she had been dead over a year, and did 

 that cause talk ! The Indians were almost ready to go on the warpath. Your 

 friend X" and some (northern Mohave) Indians went over to S. and after a lot 

 of talking they found out that she hadn't been buried. The body had been re- 

 leased to L. Hospital and that is where they found her, over a year after she 

 had been dead. They got her home, cremated her and everything was all right 

 after that. By the way, she was supposed to be a medicine woman. A much 

 feared one at tliat. ( Case 49. ) 



8SA Mohave for whom neither my Mohave friends nor I had any respect or liking. 

 In discussing him, we therefore always called him "your friend." 



