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some members of tlic Pima comniunity during preceding generations 

 before outside iufliicuees were brought to bear upon them. Indeed, 

 some measure of ]U'U(h»nce was enforced by the fact that tlie Apaclies 

 were hovering upon tlic outskirts of the villages watching for an oppor- 

 tunity to attack when the warriors were incapacitated for resistance. 



Tlie "Name song" is a social device that accomplishes the ends of 

 organized charity, together with those of the ordinary festival. If a 

 \allage suffers from a scarcity of food, it visits one where the croj)s 

 have been plentiful and .shares in the boiintifid harvest in the following 

 manner: The vi-sitors camp outside the village and come in during the 

 evening to leani the names of the residents and to arrange these names 

 hi the song, which -provides places for two names in each stanza. 

 There are seventy stanzas in the song, and if there are more than 

 twice that number of visitors it may be repeated and other names 

 substituted. Each visitor assumes the name of a resident of the vil- 

 lage as a seal of fellowship and for the purpose of contributing to the 

 pleasure of the festivities of the morrow, when the strangers come 

 into the village to sing. As the song is .sung and a name is called the 

 wife or daughter of the person of that name runs witli some light 

 object, and the wife or daughter of the person who has as.sumed the 

 name for the day pursues the other woman to take it away from her. 

 If she is imable to catch her, some of the other visiting women aid in 

 capturing the nmner, and she leads her captors to where "the value 

 of her luisband's name," in the form of corn, wheat, beans, or other 

 foodstuffs, is ready to be presented to the visitor. 



When there are many ptirticipants in the ceremony nearly tlie 

 entire day may be consumed in its performance. When some of the 

 resident villagers are destitute, only the names of those who have 

 plentiful crops are u.sed. The visitors give notliing but their serv- 

 ices us singers, and they receive very substantial rewards. Kticjuette 

 requires that the visit be returned within a reasonable time hite 

 the same season or during the following year. However, w hen the 

 nomadic Papagos come to give the Pimas entertainment the visit can 

 so seldom be returned that the gifts are more of the nature of ex- 

 changes by barter, with the advantages in favor of the Papagos. 

 The Pimas always received the Papagos cordially, though rarely 

 returning their visits — so rarely that in the last fifty years the Pimas 

 hiive .sung the name song but twice in Papagueria, the two visits 

 being to Suijotoa. 



Athletic Sports 



The men received thorough training in speed and endurance in 

 running during their raids into the Apaclie country, but they had few 

 sports that tended toward physical improvement except the foot 

 races. Sometimes a woman ran in a contest against a man, she 



