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because he was a very heavy drinker, but always returned to him. One day, 

 however, she left him permanently and married his brother Amat Yavu:me (&). 

 She was married to the latter for about a year and a half, and bore him a 

 daughter. Since Amat Yavu:me (&) was a heavy drinker, too, informants sus- 

 pect that she deserted Humar Tudhu:lye (c) not so much because he drank, 

 as because she wished to marry his brother. This divorce and remarriage did 

 not interfere in the least with the extremely warm and friendly relationship 

 between the two brothers. 



One day, when his daughter was about 3 or 4 months old, Amat Yavu:me (6), 

 while very drunk, was run over at dawn by a car on the highway which passes 

 through the Colorado River Indian Reservation near Parker, Ariz. It was 

 assumed that the car belonged to a tourist, since its driver was never caught. 

 Amat Yavu :me (6) was fatally injured. His legs and ribs were smashed, and 

 "there was only mush inside his body." He was found lying on the highway 

 by a white tourist, who promptly reported the accident to the Agency. Amat 

 Yavu :me was thereupon taken to the Agency hospital by a group consisting of 

 the white constable of Parker, the halfbreed Indian reservation policeman 

 Kohovan Kura :u, the colored Agency truck driver, and Hama : Utce :'s husband, 

 Sumuramura. At the hospital Hama : Utce : tried to question the dying man 

 about his accident, but could not obtain an answer. Amat Yavuane (6) did, 

 however, recognize Sumurjimura and asked hiTn to take him home. Next, 

 Hama: Utce: dispatched her husband, SumuramurA, to the reservation, to 

 inform Po:ta (e), the victim's half sister, of the accident, since Amat Yavurme 

 (ft) had been found so early in the morning that no one knew about the acci- 

 dent. Consequently, although he did not die until about 10 a.m., Po :ta was at 

 that time still on her way to the hospital. 



Syuly (/), now a widow, lived alone for some time, and then married S. (d), 

 half nephew of her two former husbands. "She sure must have liked that 

 family," Hama : Utce : commented. "When a person marries two members of 

 the same family in succession, they say that she will eventually run through 

 the rest of the family as well." Eventually she bore a daughter also to her 

 third husband. He, however, deserted her after a while. Sometime later 

 she married HilkSyam Aa :u (g) 



Amat Yavu :me's ( 6 ) death greatly affected his family, as well as his friends. 

 Thus, even Hama: Utce:, who loathes drunkenness and is not related to this 

 family in any way, stated, "Neither I, nor Hivsu : Tupo :ma, who is not related 

 to this family either, ever got over Amat Yavu:me's (&) death. Those two 

 brothers are very good people — especially Amat Yavu :me." 



Humar Tudhu:lye (a) was especially deeply affected by his brother's death. 

 Although the two brothers did not live together — Humar Tudhu :lye lived in 

 the house of his older uterine brother, E. (c) — they were so fond of each other 

 that even my Mohave informants (who tend to take brotherly love for granted) 

 made a point of stressing the intensity of their mutual devotion. Humar 

 Tudhu:lye (a) kept on thinking of his brother's death. Although he had 

 always drunk a lot, after his brother's death he became such a drunkard that 

 even the Mohave tried to keep him from getting drunk, which was quite un- 

 usual, since the Mohave like to share their drinks. Finally Humar Tudhu :lye's 

 (a) craving for alcohol became so great that he would even walk into the houses of 

 his friends in their absence and drink up their liquor. "When drunk, he often 

 talked about his dead brother : "I keep on thinking of my brother. I don't care 

 If the same thing happens to me too. I too want to die. I don't care." It was 

 ascertained that thoughts of death did not preoccupy Humar Tudhu :lye (a) 

 prior to his brother's death. 



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