300 THE PIMA INDIANS [eth. ax.v.26 



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Katundami" ya-ahangu, *lv!ituiidami ya-ahangu ; konyitcoma 



Thoniapple ' leaves, thunifiiiplo leaves; ' I that 



hoiTgi3'ak namahangu r.sakali mumulihimu. (Repeat all; theu repeat 



eat dizzy stagger nin. 



from *) 



Katundami yasingu, * kritundaiui yiisifigu ; tcoma hiyaku navahamo 



Thoniapple ' flowers, tliornapple * flowers; that (irink druuk 



rsakali mumulihimu. (Repeat from *) 



.stiigger run. 



Ill 



Kakatii kuviholi yanamu uyaita-a, * hiyava nyiahu vatany, mumoak 



Bows great remaining man following, here overtook heme, killed 



inyi, wopa hitaiiy yahafiga hikomiaka rsolifiga-a. (Repeat from *) 



me, left this " " my horns eut olT throw away. 



Vapaka kuviholi yanamu nyaita-a, * hiyava n3'iahu vatany, 



Reeds great remaining man following, here overtook he me'^ 



mumoak inyi, wopa hituny nanhavia hikomiaka rsoliiiga-a. (Repeat 



killed me, left this my feet cut off throw away. 



from *) 



IV 



Momovali natakimu, * momovali natakimu, ka^oho miawaka hama 



Fly erazy, fly crazy. there droj) there 



yanaki taimhu-u. (Repeat from *) 



flap. 



* Yakimalinavakahi, yakimali navakahi, ka^oho miawaka hamsi tapai 



Butterfly drunk. Butterfly druuk, tliere drop there open 



kimu-u. (Repeat from *) 



and shut wings. 



Tra7islation 



I ate the tliornapple leaves 



And the leaves made me dizzy. 

 I <lrank thoniapple flowers 



And the drink made nie stagger. 



The hunter, Bow-remaining, 



He overtook and killed me, 

 Cut and threw my horns away. 



The hunter, Reed-remaining, 

 He overtook and killed me. 



Cut and threw my feet away. 



Now the flies beeome crazy 



And they drop with flapjiiiig wings. 



The drunken butterflies sit 



With opening and shutting wings. 



rt .\ native thornapple, Datura meteloides D. C. It is popularly believed that if one eat an undi- 

 vided root it will render him temporarily insane, but if the root be divided or branching it is 

 innocuous. There is a tradition that a man at Blackwater ate of the root and directed that he be 

 locked in an empty house until the effects should wear ofl. He was locked in at noon and toward 

 evening he was seen running through the thickets toward the river a couple of miles distant. He 

 recovered his senses when in the middle of a thorny thicket of mesquites. His limbs were scratched 

 and bruised, yet he bad been unconscious of any Injury until the moment of recovering his wits. 



