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with the deceased brother, whose suicide Aiiialyk Tumadha:p imitated in at 

 least two, and possibly three, respects. 



Cluster B : 



CASE 114 (Informants : Hama : Utce : and Hivsu : Tnpo :ma) : 



Name : Taparevily. Claimed gens : Syuly. Race : Father's mother, Yavapai. 

 The three other grandparents were predominantly Mohave, perhaps with some 

 admixture of white. Sex: Male. Age at death: About 17. Marital status: 

 Single. Children : None. Parents : Alive. Education : Indian Agency School, 

 Parker, Ariz. Occupation: None. Date of death: 1924 (?). Cause of death: 

 Suicide. He shot himself in the heart with a 12-gage shotgun. Motive : His 

 aunt nagged him. (The complex racial ancestry of this family is discussed 

 in the appended comments.) 



Taparevily lived in Parker, in a tent erected in the yard of, or at least near 

 to, his maternal aunt's house. Aunt's name : Tanu. Claimed gens : Kunyii :th, 

 (Claim denied by her niece.) Claimed race: Fullblood Mohave. (Claim denied 

 by her niece, who says that Tanu: is half Mohave and half white.) Sex: 

 Female. Age : 50. Relationship : Uterine ( ?) half sister of Taparevily's mother. 



Taparevily borrowed his aunt's new car, and then got drunk with another 

 man. While intoxicated, he drove the car into a ditch and left it there over- 

 night. Ever after, "as usual," (sic!) Tanu: pestered Taparevily about the car. 

 A week later she was still nagging him. Eventually Taparevily "got so sick 

 and tired" of being nagged that, around 11 : 00 a. m., he went into his tent and 

 shot himself in the heart. According to Hama : Utce :, who is Taparevily's 

 uterine half sister, the reservation physician — perhaps out of kindness — certified 

 that his death had been an accidental one. 



Comment on ike racial origins of Taparevily and Tanu 



"There have been halfbreeds in this Kunyii :th lineage as far back as anyone 

 can remember. Hence, I cannot be entirely sure either of my racial origins, or 

 of those of my uterine half brothers L. M. and Taparevily, or of those of my 

 aunt Tanu :. My mother was mostly Mohave, though she probably had some 

 white blood as well. One of my mother's half sisters was half Mohave and half 

 Maricopa, and lived on the Maricopa Reservation. Once my mother went to 

 visit her, and, while among the Maricopa, she had an affair with a man who 

 was mostly white, but also had some Maricopa blood in him. I was born of 

 this union. Then my mother lived with another man, who was 'mostly' Mohave 

 (sic!) though his mother had been a Yavapai woman. This man was the father 

 of my half brothei's L. M. and Taparevily, who, like myself, were brought up 

 mostly by our mother's half sister Tanu :. 



"As regards my Aunt Tanu :, it is hard to say what she is. The Mohave can 

 claim as their own the child of a woman who has been their wife for the greater 

 part of the first 6 lunar months of her pregnancy (Devereux, 1949 c). Hence 

 Tanu: claims to be a fullblood Mohave Indian, of the Kunyii :th gens, just 

 because her mother's husband was kind enough to pretend that she had 'become' 

 his child. My aimt was always snooty to me and my half brothers, because we 

 were halfbreeds, though she herself is really half white, her real father having 

 been a white man." 



In summary, if Tanu :'s mother was indeed a fvdlblood Mohave woman, she 

 herself was half Mohave and half white. 



The considerations above are of some importance for the complete under- 

 standing of this suicide. The Mohave both fear and despise aliens and half- 

 breeds, whose "strong blood" tends to "hit the weaker blood" of those Mohave 

 with whom they come in contact (pt, 4, pp. 128-150). Tanu :, tliough pretending 



