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  YUM 
  AN 
  FAMILY. 
  J 
  37 
  

  

  >Usliiti. 
  Latham 
  in 
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  Soc. 
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  88, 
  1856 
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  a 
  dialect 
  of 
  Wai- 
  

  

  kur). 
  Latham, 
  Opuscula, 
  353, 
  1860. 
  

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  Latliam, 
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  Comp. 
  Phil.. 
  423, 
  1862 
  (same 
  as 
  Ushiti). 
  

   >Pericu, 
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  in 
  Trans. 
  Philolog. 
  Soc. 
  Lond., 
  88, 
  1856. 
  Latham. 
  Opuscula 
  353 
  

  

  1860. 
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  y 
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  Lenguas 
  de 
  Mexico, 
  map. 
  1864 
  

   > 
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  ( 
  iomp. 
  (Cent, 
  and 
  So. 
  Am. 
  ). 
  476, 
  1878 
  (from 
  23' 
  N 
  

  

  L. 
  to 
  Cape 
  S. 
  Lucas 
  and 
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   >Seri, 
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  Derivation: 
  A 
  Cuclian 
  word 
  signifying 
  "sons 
  of 
  the 
  river" 
  

   (^ 
  hippie). 
  

  

  In 
  1856 
  Turner 
  adopted 
  Yuma 
  as 
  a 
  family 
  name, 
  and 
  placed 
  under 
  

   it 
  Cuchan, 
  Coco-Maricopa, 
  Mojave 
  and 
  Diegeno. 
  

  

  Three 
  years 
  previously 
  (1853) 
  Latham 
  1 
  speaks 
  of 
  the 
  Dieguno 
  lan- 
  

   guage, 
  and 
  discusses 
  with 
  it 
  several 
  others, 
  viz, 
  San 
  Diego. 
  Cocomari- 
  

   copa, 
  Cuchan, 
  Yuma, 
  Amaquaqua 
  (Mohave), 
  etc, 
  Though 
  he 
  seems 
  

   to 
  consider 
  these 
  languages 
  as 
  allied, 
  he 
  gives 
  no 
  indication 
  that 
  he 
  

   believes 
  them 
  to 
  collectively 
  represent 
  a 
  family, 
  and 
  he 
  made 
  no 
  

   formal 
  family 
  division. 
  The 
  context 
  is 
  not, 
  however, 
  sufficiently 
  

   clear 
  to 
  render 
  his 
  position 
  with 
  respect 
  to 
  their 
  exact 
  status 
  as 
  pre- 
  

   cise 
  as 
  is 
  to 
  be 
  desired, 
  but 
  it 
  is 
  tolerably 
  certain 
  that 
  he 
  did 
  not 
  

   mean 
  to 
  make 
  Diegueno 
  a 
  family 
  name, 
  for 
  in 
  the 
  volume 
  of 
  the 
  

   same 
  society 
  for 
  1856 
  he 
  includes 
  both 
  the 
  Diegueno 
  and 
  the 
  other 
  

   above 
  mentioned 
  tribes 
  in 
  the 
  Yuma 
  family, 
  winch 
  is 
  here 
  fully 
  set 
  

   forth. 
  As 
  he 
  makes 
  no 
  allusion 
  to 
  having 
  previously 
  established 
  a 
  

   family 
  name 
  for 
  the 
  same 
  group 
  of 
  languages, 
  it 
  seems 
  pretty 
  cer- 
  

   tain 
  that 
  he 
  did 
  not 
  do 
  so, 
  and 
  that 
  the 
  term 
  Diegueno 
  as 
  a 
  family 
  

   name 
  may 
  be 
  eliminated 
  from 
  consideration. 
  It 
  thus 
  appears 
  that 
  

   the 
  family 
  name 
  Yuma 
  was 
  proposed 
  by 
  both 
  the 
  above 
  authors 
  dur- 
  

   ing 
  the 
  same 
  year. 
  For. 
  though 
  part 
  3 
  of 
  vol. 
  in 
  of 
  Pacific 
  Railroad 
  

   Keports, 
  m 
  which 
  Turner's 
  article 
  is 
  published, 
  is 
  dated 
  1855 
  it 
  an 
  

   pears 
  from 
  a 
  foot-note 
  (p. 
  84) 
  that 
  his 
  paper 
  was 
  not 
  handed 
  to 
  Mr 
  

   Whipple 
  till 
  January. 
  1856, 
  the 
  date 
  of 
  title 
  page 
  of 
  volume, 
  and 
  

   that 
  his 
  proof 
  was 
  going 
  through 
  the 
  press 
  during 
  the 
  month 
  of 
  

   May 
  which 
  is 
  the 
  month 
  (May 
  9) 
  that 
  Latham's 
  paper 
  was 
  read 
  be- 
  

   fore 
  the 
  Philological 
  Society. 
  The 
  fact 
  that 
  Latham's 
  article 
  was 
  not 
  

   read 
  until 
  May 
  9 
  enables 
  us 
  to 
  establish 
  priority 
  of 
  publication 
  in 
  

   favor 
  of 
  Turner 
  with 
  a 
  reasonable 
  degree 
  of 
  certainty, 
  as 
  doubtless 
  

   a 
  considerable 
  period 
  elapsed 
  between 
  the 
  presentation 
  of 
  Latham's 
  

   paper 
  to 
  the 
  society 
  and 
  its 
  final 
  publication, 
  upon 
  which 
  latter 
  

   must 
  rest 
  its 
  claim. 
  The 
  Yuma 
  of 
  Turner 
  is 
  therefore 
  adopted 
  as 
  

   of 
  precise 
  date 
  and 
  of 
  undoubted 
  application. 
  Pimentel 
  makes 
  

   Yuma 
  a 
  part 
  of 
  Piman 
  stock. 
  

  

  GEOGKAPHIC 
  DISTRIBUTION. 
  

  

  The 
  center 
  of 
  distribution 
  of 
  the 
  tribes 
  of 
  this 
  family 
  is 
  generally 
  

   considered 
  to 
  be 
  the 
  lower 
  Color 
  ad. 
  , 
  and 
  Gila 
  Valleys. 
  At 
  least 
  this 
  

   1 
  Proc. 
  London 
  Philol. 
  Soc, 
  vol 
  6. 
  75, 
  1854! 
  

  

  