326* THE l^ERI INDIANS [eth.ann.i? 



Umis, " fcatlicrs " and "hair'' of auimals; and also yia-lfmis, "eyebrow", literally, 

 "eye hair", and a-limi, " beard", literally, " mouth hair", in which yiii for in « means 

 "eye" and a for yan, "mouth". In his Mesa (irande vocabulary, Mr Henshaw 

 recorded h'lta for both "head" and " hair''; in his Hawi Kanoheria vocabulary he 

 wrote md-whl for "head", and h'lta for "hair''; and lastly, in his Santa Isabella 

 record lulsta means "hair", hi'i sta-kwarhr is written for "head"' (literally, "hair 

 skiu", meaning "the scalp"); and iistii-ki'inw is rendered "skull". Thus, h'lta, Ivmis, 

 and hiUta are terms deuotiuft "hair, fur, skin, feathers, and fish scales". Yet it is 

 possible that hiistn is a softened and ill-pronounced cognate ut' h'lta. In Corbusier's 

 Yavapai vocabulary "eyebrow" is written yi(h-kfli-me, and in Dr White's Tonto 

 word list yii-yiilma, both signifyiug literally "eye hair". It is apparently safe, 

 therefore, to re;;'ard the element -krh'ine or -ijfilma of these two dialects as coguate 

 with the IfnuH {I'lmi) noticed above. In his Mohave record Mr Corbusier renders 

 his entry hhnii; (liimith) by "hair on an animal". Yet in this very dialect he writes 

 hidho-looVos himif, "eyebrow", literally, "eye hair"; and in the H'taiim or San 

 Tomasefio by Dr Gabb "beard" is written dh-lamUe, literally, "mouth hair". 

 "Hair" is written helt'h-yee-moh, seemingly "head hair '', for " tbrehead " is ren- 

 dered by heVl-iimy, in which helfh- or het'l- seems to be the term denotive of "head"; 

 but in Lieutenant Mowry's Diegueno this term, which is there written heiltar (for 

 hetltd) signifies "hair". In Ten Kate's Maricopa, "beard" is written ya-uomis, lit- 

 erally "mouth hair", -loomis being clearly a variant ofhimif, which is but a variant 

 otli-mith and ot -kel.ime noticed above. In the Santa Isabella, Mr Henshaw wrote 

 " feathers " li-mith . 



COMI'ARATIVK LIST OF DIEGUESO .\NU OTHER VT.MAX NAMES FOJi " HEAD ", "lIAIl!'' 



Head Hair 



14. ilta khalta 



15. hu-lchte-kamo hu-lchsta 



16. tenah-cumoh hetltar (^ hetltn) 

 2-t. hu-ch'lta hu-ch'lmo 



24rt. ahii (also " beak, bill ") h'al-ta (= ^al-ta) 



17. ho(=xo) h'lemo (=^lemo) 

 27. h'l-ta (= ,tl-ta) h'l-ta (=;rl-ta) 

 26. ma-whl hl-ta 



h'o (= ^o) (also " beak, bill ") 

 25. hfistaf hfista 



It seems clear, furthermore, that Hid (14) is nu;rely a curtailed example of khalta 

 (14), for it is clear that this Hid is a cognate with the h'lta (27), the initial /I'-sound 

 of which, Mr Henshaw says, represents a rough guttural utterance (represented 

 herein by the character x- I" (-7) of the comparative list h'lta, expre,s8e8 both 

 "head" and "hair", thus completing the circuit and making ilta cognate with 

 khalld, since it is plain that h'alta (xalta) of 24a, lilta of 26, and h'l-ta of 27, the 

 initial sound in each being, as shown above, a rough guttural are related to khalta. 

 The term hu-ch'lmo (24) is a compound of hii-, "head", and -ch'hno, an evident cog- 

 nate with the element -gfilma or -kelfme (^ki'lcmh) noticed above, denoting "hair"; 

 hence, the combination signifies "hair of the head". In like manner the H'taiim or 

 Sau Tomaseuo form (17) h'lemo maj- be explained. In this dialect ho i^X") signifies 

 "head", and an original holemo (^x^-'^t'S), signifying "hair of the head", became 

 contracted to the form in question, namely, h'lemo. In the Santa Isabella record of 

 Mr Henshaw hitsta signifies "hair", but husta-kwar/ir is given for "head'', while 

 iis-tiik-i'im-o is translated "sknll"; the last expression should have been written 

 (h)H8tii-k(imd. Under the caption "robe of rabbit skins", h'kwir is found, but under 

 "skin" in " Parts of the Body" of his schedule, nyakirdt (26) and n'kwvr (25) are 

 found, both meaning "my skin"; Corbusier's Mohave record has 7iim«'/-Mi«/,»';/ ren- 



