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both the Mohave and the English name of the person who is being 

 discussed; e.g., they may say: "Hivsu: Tuporma — Dan Lament," 

 even when speaking Mohave with each other. 



Despite these difficulties, it is almost certain that 90 to 95 percent 

 of the names and gentile affiliations recorded in this book are correct, 

 and involve neither the treating of one person as two individuals, nor 

 of two persons as one individual. Of the remainder, many are the 

 names of dead persons, which means that weeks would have had to be 

 spent in order to ascertain beyond question the gentile affiliations and 

 correct names of the deceased. This was not done, since it was felt 

 that the time in the field could be more profitably spent in other ways, 

 especially since it seemed obvious that the validity of the anthro- 

 pological and psychiatric data reported in this work would not be 

 materially increased by making quite certain that individual X was 

 a member of the Kat rather than of the Hualy gens — except, of 

 course, in connection with alleged cases of incest, where every effort 

 was made to clarify these relevant details. In brief, it is felt that 

 the degree of precision achieved in regard to names, multiple names, 

 and gens affiliations is entirely adequate for the purposes of the 

 present work. 



