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Summing up, the absence of mawkishness in the behavior of the 

 intoxicated Mohave is due to his seeming lack of the basic psy- 

 chological requisites for maudlin sentimentality. 



An instance of genuinely affectionate behavior in an intoxicated 

 person noted for his kindliness is recorded further below (Case 136). 



3. AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR 



The average intoxicated Mohave is not aggressive, and drunken 

 brawls are rare. It seems significant that, of the few drunken brawls 

 known to me, two were initiated by intoxicated men attempting to 

 protect drunken women against some slightly sadistic practical joke. 

 Thus, the shaman Hivsu : Tupo :ma tried to interfere with men who 

 wished to singe off the pubic hair of two intoxicated girls, while T. 

 attempted to prevent a group of men who, with his approval, had 

 had sex relations with his drunken wife, from abusing her also anally 

 (Devereux, 1950 a). (Anal coitus is thought of as a sexual "joke.") 

 Similarly, although Hivsu : Tupo :ma seemed slightly wild eyed while 

 confessing to me that he had committed witchcraft and incest, his 

 behavior toward me was as cordial as always (Case 139). The late 

 Dr. M. A. I. Nettle's impression that the average drunlj:en Mohave do 

 not fight, but merely pass out, was confirmed independently by every 

 reliable informant. 



The extreme rarity of drunken aggressiveness among the Mohave, 

 and their apparent lack of any psychic need to seek Dutch courage 

 in the bottle, require some comment. The stoic courage (pt. 7, pp. 

 426-431) of these huge men (Kroeber, 1925, a ; Hrdlicka, 1908), which 

 enabled them on occasion to accomplish dazzling feats of valor in the 

 face of overwhelming odds (Kroeber, 1925 b; McNichols, 1944), is 

 still a living force among them. Since courage is taken for granted, 

 no Mohave feels impelled or compelled to validate his claims to 

 bravery by constant displays of valor. In simplest terms, the Mohave 

 despise the bully, because their ideal is the man who combines gentle- 

 ness with stoic courage (Stewart, 1947 c). This ideal pattern also 

 explains why Hivsu: Tupo:ma, a huge man weighing nearly 250 

 pounds, gave up his attempt to protect two drunken girls rather than 

 start a fight (Case 139). 



It goes without saying that all Mohave do not live up to this ideal 

 of the brave and gentle man. 



CASE 128. (Informants: Tcatc and E. S.) : 



In 1937, or thereabouts, an elderly woman, Nyortc Huhual (reputed to have 

 been ya tcahaetk, i.e. "man crazy," in her youth was walking home from a party, 

 when two men pulled a sack over her head and took her money ; one man — a 

 thickset youth — even raped her. Though this youth was never positively 

 identified, he was believed to be a relative of the old woman, and to have been 

 intoxicated at the time. No one is certain, however, whether the man in ques- 

 tion was actually drunk, or whether intoxication was merely imputed to him in 



