170 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 34 



The Pima are very orderly, and instances of violence and even of 

 theft are rare. According to their Sacaton chief, the people in the 

 past believed firmly in witchcraft, a belief which led at times to the 

 commission of murder. Medicine-men who were supposed to have lost 

 their powers of healing or to have turned witches were executed." 



The Tarahumare poison one another, though rarely, by adminis- 

 tering a certain poisonous spider (uvar) crushed in tesvino. One 

 of these spiders is said to be enough to kill a man. The campa- 

 mala, an insect, may also be used for this purpose, but seems to be 

 of doubtful efficacy. Sexual morals within the tribe are quite 

 loose, notwithstanding which jealousy is violent and occasionally 

 leads the husband to kill his wife. Such murder occurs usually when 

 the man is intoxicated. Two homicides of this nature took place 

 within the knowledge of the Tarahumare gobernador at Guajochic 

 during the first five months of 1898. 



The Huichol fight among themselves when drunk, but very rarely 

 kill one another. Within recent years they have killed a Mexi- 

 can, on the road to Santa Catarina. An individual of the tribe who 

 becomes much disliked may be hanged or otherwise killed by the people. 

 According to the nearest Mexican civil authorities,^ the Huichol are 

 prosecuted for robber}^, of which they are occasionally accused by 

 some white settler. Among themselves thefts occur also. If the 

 thief is apprehended he is permitted to make restitution or to pay the 

 value of the stolen property. The Huichol are also prosecuted when 

 it becomes known that they (authorities and population united) 

 have burned or hanged or thrown from a cliff one of their tribe 

 guilty of acts that are looked on in the tribe as sacrilegious or as 

 witchcraft. Ordinary homicide is rare, for when the Huichol fight first 

 of all they divest themselves of their arms (machete, bow, and arrows) 

 and then only buffet one another and pull one another's hair. Sexual 

 crimes have not been brought to the attention of the Mexican 

 authorities, but these occur in the tribe. 



Among the Cora, according to the local judge, crimes of violence 

 are of first importance. There are also some thieving and rarely sex- 

 ual crimes. 



The most frequent transgressions among the Otomi (Tula district, 

 Hidalgo) are homicide and assaults and stealing cattle.*^ Their 

 violence is generally committed in drunkenness and often for trivial 

 reasons. They fight with stones and also with knives. When 

 arrested they generally acknowledge their crime, with all its details, 

 and receive the sentence, even if it is capital punishment, with 



a See Medicine-men, p. 224. 



* Sefior D. Pablo Genaro Santibaiiez, in Mezquitic, Jalisco. 



<-For much of the information regarding this subject among the Otomi, the author is indel)ted 

 to Sefior Llcenciado Ysaac Kivera, judge of Tula. 



