Devereux] MOHAVE ETHNOPSYCHIATRY AND SUICIDE 273 



Q. Do you ever have falling dreams ? 



A. No. [Pause.] When they took out my tonsils, I did dream that I went 

 up into the sliy like a steamshovel and then came down fast, 



Q. Umquamne somnias te cum puellis cubare? 



A. No. 



Q. Vidistine umquam quemquam concumbentem? 



A. No. 



Q. Num ipse umquam concubuisti? 



A. No. 



Q. Concumbuntne cum puellis tuae aetatis pueri? 



A. No. 



Q. Manune te ipsum stupras? 



A. No. 



Q. Do other boys? 



A. Yes. 



Q. Then how does it happen that you don't? 



A. I don't know. 



Q. Truly? Never? 



A. I tell you the truth — I never did it in my life. 



Q. Habesne ejaculationes seminis nocturnas? 



A. No. 



Q, Didyoudoany bedwetting? 



A. No. 



Q. How old are you? 



A. Eleven years old. 



Q. What is the story behind this alleged attempt to steal something from the 

 B. home? 



A. J. H., M. H.'s brother, wanted to get his bathing suit, because we were 

 going to swim in that basin down there. J. H. untied a string and got into Mr. 

 B.'s tent. Then he went in and got his bathing suit, and I went to my uncle 

 K. M.'s house to get my own, — and then we went swimming. 



Q. Why was J. H.'s swimming suit in the B.'s tent? 



A. They just visited there and left it there on one occasion. 



Q. Did you ever take anything that did not belong to you? 



A. Yes [Pause.] There were some pinon nuts belonging to my grandmother 

 and I stole them. I took a pocketf ul."^ 



Q. Were you punished for it? 



A. No one found out about it, so I was not punished. 



Q. Anything else? 



A. Once I took a watchfob from a Mohave at Needles. It was lying on the 

 table and I took it. Someone told my grandmother that a watchfob was missing 

 and my grandmother showed them the one I had. They recognized it as the 

 missing one, and my grandmother spanked me. 



Q. When was that? 



A. A long time ago. 



Q. What else do you get spanked for? 



A. For running away, and for going uptown, and for stealing. 



Q. What is the trouble you have with your paternal aunt? 



A, Nothing. 



Q. Then why did you cry? 



"^ This is not theft by Mohave standards, since children are free to "swipe" food 

 (Devereux, 1950 h). 



