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to suicide ; the sole exception being a case of adultery combined with incest — and 

 therefore indicative of an extremely atypical type (Devereux, 1939 a) of emo- 

 tional involvement (Case 119). The first suicide caused by a stormy, but 

 socially regular, love affair occurred as late as 1944 (Case 121), i.e., at a time 

 when at least the younger generation v.'as already appreciably acculturated and 

 imbued with occidental romanticism. 



CASE 126 (Informants : Hivsu : Tupo :ma and Hama : Utce : ) : 



Name : Hipily Tcukup. Gens : Nyoltc. Race : Fullblood Mohave. Sex : Male. 

 Age at death : 41. Marital status : Married. Children : None. Parents : Mother 

 living. Education : Indian Agency School, Parker, Ariz. Occupation : Odd 

 jobs, selling wood, and ritual singing. Like every singer, Hipily Tcukup re- 

 ceived in dream the power to sing. His particular song was the Tu :ma :np'a 

 Utaurt or short Tu:ma:np'a cycle (Devereux, 1939 a; and pt. 7, pp. 356-371), 

 which is about a brother-sister incest. Persons who sing this song-cycle do not 

 necessarily become shamans in their old age (Kroeber, 1925 a). Date of death: 

 1929 (?). Cause of death : Suicide. He fired a shotgun into his heart. Motive : 

 Infidelity of his wife. 



Name of wife : O :ote. Gens : O :otc. Race : Fullblood Mohave. Sex : Female. 

 Age: 50. Marital status: Married. Children: None. Parents: Dead. Occu- 

 pation : Housewife. 



Hipily Tcukup and his wife lived opposite the town of Needles, Calif., on the 

 Arizona side of the Colorado River, where the so-called Fort Mohave Reserva- 

 tion is located. Hipily Tcukup's wife had affairs simultaneously with two men, 

 who, though of her husband's gens, were no blood-relatives of his. Her lovers 

 were: 



(1) Talyhia :ra. Gens: Nyoltc. Race : Fullblood Mohave. Sex : Male. Age: 

 43. Marital status: Single. 



(2) Hamcukuenk. Gens: Nyoltc. Race: Fullblood Mohave. Sex: Male. 

 Age : 45. Marital status : Single. 



Hipily Tcukup was aware of his wife's infidelity. One day, just as she was 

 about to leave for another tryst with one of her lovers, he said : "I shall shoot 

 you, and myself as well," and then shot her in the stomach with a shotgun, just 

 as she ran to hide in the bushes. llama : Utce: felt that "if he had known that 

 she was still alive, he would have finished her off." Thinking that he had killed 

 her, he went back into the house and put on all his finery for his own funeral. 

 He then lay down on his bed, stretched out on his back, and (presumably?) sang 

 the Tu :ma :np'a Utfiu :t cycle. Then, between 4 :00 and 5 :00 p.m., he got up and 

 shot himself in the heart, by working the trigger of the shotgun with his foot. 



After his death his wife married one of her lovers, Talyhia :ra. Her son, known 

 both as Pi :it Hi :dho Kwa-ahwat (Pi :it eyes red) and as Kwakuy Tadhuk (old- 

 woman?) of the O :otc gens (?), was eventually bewitched by Kuniadhi: Atat, 

 of the Kumddhi : gens (Case 49) . 



Comment 



As in several other instances, the husband's final aggressive and self-destruc- 

 tive behavior is preceded by a long period of purposeless patience and tolerance. 

 It must be assumed that it is during this period of behavioral quiescence and 

 self-control that emotional pressures accumulate to the point where they can 

 find an adequate outlet only in suicide and/or a murderous assault. 



CASE 127 (Informants : Hivsu : Tupo :ma and Hama : Utce : ) : 



Name: Atceyer Tcuva :u. Gens: Vahath. Race: Fullblood Mohave. Sex: 

 Male. Age at death : 30. Marital status : Married. Children : Allegedly a son. 



