ADDENDUM 



A NOTE ON GENTILE AFFILIATIONS AND NAMES 



Due primarily to the taboo on the names of the dead and also 

 to other factors discussed below, absolute certainty and precision 

 could not be achieved with regard to gentile affiliations and names. 

 For example, as regards gentile affiliations, Pulyi :k, an excellent and 

 meticulous informant, stated that Apen Ismalyk's gens was Mat-ha, 

 while Apen Ismalyk himself said that he belonged to the Melyikha 

 gens. 



The gentile affiliations of the following are known to be dubious: 



Amalyk Tumadha :p (Tcatc or Syuly) 



Amily Nyunye : (Nyoltc or Mah) 



Anyay Ha :m (Hi:pa or 0:otc) 



Apen Ismalyk (Melyikha, or perhaps Mat-ha). Doubts exists because 

 he is psychotic, because his mother's gens was Melyikha, and because 

 some details of his genealogy are questionable (Case 4) . 



Hamcukuenk (Nyoltc or Mu :th) 



Hikye :t (O :otc or Nyoltc) 



Huau Husek' (Mu :th or Hualy) 



Hu :kyev Anyay (Mu :th or O :otc) 



Huyatc (Mah, but if identical with Huyatc Humar, then Hualy) 



Kwitcia :r (Mah or Melyikha) 



Nyail Kwaki :yo (Nyoltc or O :otc) 



O :olva (Tcatc or Mu :th) 



Pa :hay (Kunyii :th or Mo :the) 



Suhuraye (Nyoltc or, doubtfully, Kunyii :th) 



Sukat (Nyoltc or Mu :ha) 



Tcakwar Alaye (Kat or Mat-ha) 



Tcavakye: (Hualy or Tcatc) 



Other gentile affiliations may also have been misreported. Thus, 

 Amat Hu:dliap (earth rent or torn, Hi:pa) and Amay Tudharpa 

 (sky rent or torn, Syuly) may perhaps be the same person, for reasons 

 explained further below, in connection with similar sounding, plural 

 names, which may belong either to one person or else to tAvo people, 

 one of whom has imitated the name of the other, and adopted this 

 imitated name for himself. 



These observations make it necessary to discuss briefly the difficul- 

 ties met with in recording Mohave names. 



Few Mohave have names made up of one word only. On closer 

 inquiry it often turns out that a routinely used one- word name is 

 but a fragment of a name made up of several words (Tcilyetcilye 



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