Devereui] MOHAVE ETHNOPSYCHIATRY AND SUICIDE 281 



mrininfT^'^'"'''""*' adulescentes." Placet mihi coitus, sed emissio seminis 



[Q] Last night (November &-10. 1938) I dreamed that a snake bit me. 

 Then I woke up. I don't know what kind of a snake it was. The night before 

 that (November 8-9, 1938) I dreamed about a lot of stuff. [Q] I have no r^ 

 current dreams. [Q] Yes, I want to become a shaman later on. [Do you dream 

 about the gods, like shamans?] No. [How long ago did this business with Ma^ 

 happen.''] Last summer. [Do you have a girl now'] No 



[Num umquam vidisti futuentes?] Vidi F. St. futuentem, sed non vidi 

 Hamteya:u (Case 77) neque umquam adultos vidi hoc facientes. [Q] We live 

 in a one-room house-all three of us sleep there. We also have another house for 



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[Q] When I am grown up, I want to work at anything I can get 



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 [Why are you a truant?] I just get lazy spells and stay home. [Don't 

 your parents tell you to go to school?] No-well, they do tell me to go but I 

 just refuse to go and I do not get punished, either at home or at school for not 

 going to school. Sometimes I do not go to school because I do not have lunch 

 [Q] Yesterday I got punished in school for drawing, I had to stay in during 



[Do you ride horseback ? ] Yes. I even ha ve a horse =° 



[Q] I fight with E. St. ; he is bigger and stronger 'than I and he makes me 

 cry. Of course, anyone can make Hamteya :u (Case 77) cry. [Quis te docuit 

 quomodo coeas?] Nemo. [Quomodo masturberis?] Nemo : solus didici [lam 

 emittis semen?] Non facio-facio.- Multa emissa est materia, et mentula 

 dolebat mmgenti. Colei quoque tumuerunt, sed in nosocomium non me contuli 

 Ahqmd puns evenit. [Factumne est hoc postquam cum Mah concubuisti'] 

 Antea fuit. [Adhucne venit pus illud?] Interdum solum" 

 stifl^smalT ^""^^ ^^"re«i«?:i No, not now. I had it long ago, when I was 



[Vidistine umquam animalia coeimtia?]- Vidi-heri vidi canes hos facientes 

 lubet spectare ; mentula mihi fit rigida, at non onanizo. 



[Q] Puellam masturbantem numquam vidi." "" 



[Question addressed to Hitcu :y Kutask(w)elva : Vidistin umquam puellam 

 hoc facientem?] Non vidi-ut verum dicam, vidi F. W. hoc facientem Id 

 facere solebat, mihique spectare libebat: mentulam mihi reddidit rigidam " 



[Question addressed to Case 78: Why do you tease Hamteya :u?] I don't 



^ Non fit raro inter Mohavios, adultos quoque, ut coeant caterya facta (Devereux 1948 f ) 

 et inopinata Irruptione facta desistere nollnt (Devereux. 1939 a) ^^^^^^eux, 1948 f), 



This denial is a Mohave convention ; it does not reflect actual facts (Devereux 1951 d) 

 ^'This IS a typical Mohave attitude (Devereux, 1951 f) evereux, lyol d). 



^ Case "ts nr'' '" i?"" ""f "'''^' '"''"^^ drawings during our conversation (pi. 2). 

 stenf^r f P'^^-'^"°^^bly '•efers here to the finest horse on the reservation which his 

 aS, '. ^^ "^r""' *° "■"" '^^ ^ ^^""^ ''''''■ ^-^^-^r, this horse was stolen 7rom hto 

 by t': thie^ ' "'"^ "^°' ^"'^ ""' *^^ "^- ^^ — -<^ " tbe fine stallion had been gefdS 

 »• A typical Mohave answer to a sudden embarrassing question. 

 This may have been a simple urethritis of unknown origin 

 A common amusement of Mohave children (Devereux 1948 g) 

 Interdum, puella nervis Inflrmls laborans publice se Ipsam defricat (Devereux, 1950 c). 



