Stories Of The Second Night. Notes. Part 04 : p. 102 NOTES ON THE STORY OF THE TURQUOISES Turquoises seem to have been regarded by all Arizona Indians as magical and lucky stones, and the Story of the Turquoises professes to give their origin. Of the game, toe-coll, here spoken of, Whittemore gives this account in Cook's "Among the Pimas: One...
Author's Errata : ERRATA In this book of Pima legends, various errors with regard to Indian words have occurred which will be corrected in a second edition. These are principally as follows: The rule was made that all Indian words should be printed the first time in italics, with hyphens to facilitate pronunciation;...
Stories Of The Fourth Night. The Story. Part 02 : p. 231 THE STORY OF THE CHILDREN OF CLOUD THERE was a woman who lived in the mountains, who was very beautiful, and had many suitors, but she never married anyone. And one day she was making mats of cane; and she fell asleep and a rain came and a drop fell on her navel. And she had twin babies...
Stories Of The Fourth Night. Notes. Part 04 : p. 205 NOTES ON THE STORY OF THE GAMBLER'S WAR In this we are given wonderful glimpses into the strange, fierce, sad, extravagant poetry of the Indian speeches, which seem oftenest inspired by the passion of revenge. Notice that in these stories, if several speeches are given in any one story...
Stories Of The First Night. The Traditions : p. 25 STORIES OF THE FIRST NIGHT p. 27 THE TRADITIONS OF THE PIMAS THE old man, Comalk Hawk-Kih, (Thin Buckskin) began by saying that these were stories which he used to hear his father tell, they being handed down from father to son, and that when he was little he did not pay much attention, but...
Stories Of The Third Night. Notes. Part 02 : p. 172 NOTES ON THE STORY OF SOHAHNEE MAHKAI In this we are given a most graphic and pathetic glimpse of Indian warfare. Notice the bushes are "cut down" (broken off more likely) by a stick. A glimpse of the rude old tools. Very poetic is the conception of Veeipschool, "the being above who is...
Stories Of The Second Night. Notes : p. 123 NOTES ON THE STORY OF TAWQUAHDAHMAWKS In this story we find proof that the oldest digging utensil was a sharpened stake. Before these people became agricultural they must have subsisted mainly on the game and wild fruits of the desert. They showed me several seed-bearing bushes and weeds...
Stories Of The First Night. Notes : p. 89 NOTES ON THE STORY OF VANDAIH In the story of Vandaih we are given a curious glimpse into Indian friendship. The reference to smoking, too, is interesting. The Pimas had no true pipes. They used only cigarettes of tobacco and corn-husk, or else short tubes of cane stuffed with tobacco. These...
Stories Of The Fourth Night. The Story. Part 04 : p. 206 THE STORY OF NAHVAHCHOO EE-EE-TOY was once wandering along when he found some moss that had been left there ever since the flood, and he stood and looked at it, wondering how he could make it into a human being. And while he watched it the sun breathed on it, and it became not a man, but...
Stories Of The First Night. Notes. Part 03 : p. 52 NOTES ON THE STORY OF THE FLOOD In the Story of the Flood we are introduced to Indian marriage. Among the Pimas it was a very simple affair. There was no ceremony whatever. The lover usually selected a relative, who went with him to the parents of the girl and asked the father to permit...
Stories Of The Second Night. Notes. Part 02 : p. 118 NOTES ON THE STORY OF HAWAWK The Story of Hawawk opens with an interesting reference to the favorite Pima game of football. The ball was about two and one half inches in diameter, merely a heavy pebble coated thick with black greasewood gum. Sometimes it was decorated with little inlays...
Stories Of The Second Night. The Story Of Hawawk : p. 106 THE STORY OF HAWAWK AND when Dthas Seeven had gotten better he meditated on what had happened to him, and studied out that Seeollstchewadack-Seeven was the cause of his trouble, and planned how to get the better of him. Now the Indians have a game of football in which the ball is not kicked...
Stories Of The Second Night. The Story. Part 03 : p. 97 STORIES OF THE SECOND NIGHT p. 99 THE STORY OF THE TURQUOISES AND THE RED BIRD AND at the vahahkkee which the white men now call the Casa Grande ruins was the home of "Seeollstchewadack Seeven", or the Morning green Chief. And one morning the young women at that place were playing and having...
Stories Of The Second Night. Ee Ee Toy's : p. 133 EE-EE-TOY'S RESURRECTION AND SPEECH TO JUHWERTA MAHKAI AND after Ee-ee-toy was dead he lay there, as some say for four months, and some say for four years; He was killed. but his winds were not killed, nor his clouds and they were sorry for him, and his clouds rained on him. And he lay...
Stories Of The First Night. The Story. Part 02 : p. 62 THE STORY OF AH-AHN-HE-EAT-TOE-PAHK MAHKAI AND there was an orphan named "Ah-ahn-he-eat-toe-pahk Mahkai" (which means Braided-Feather Doctor) who lived at a place called Two Reservoirs ("Go-awk-Vahp-itchee-kee") north of Chf-Skawmack, or Tall Gray Mountain. And his only relative was an old...
Stories Of The Fourth Night. Notes. Part 03 : p. 216 NOTES ON THE STORY OF NAHVAHCHOO The story of Nahvahchoo was celebrated till lately among the Pimas by dancing games, resembling those described in this story, the players wearing masks and gourds, and rattling notched sticks, one of them impersonating Nahvahchoo himself. In the reference...
Stories Of The Third Night. The Destructi : p. 154 THE DESTRUCTION OF THE VAHAHKKEES (The Pima plural of "vah-ahk-kee" is "vahp-ahk-kee", but I have made all plurals English, as more understandable.) AND after this they were not sick any more, and they came to the Gila Country, to Ee-ee-toy's land, the Land of the Vahahkkees, and here they...
Stories Of The Second Night. The Story : p. 120 THE STORY OF TAWQUAHDAHMAWKS AND HER CANAL AND after this the people had long peace, increased in numbers,. and were scattered all around. Some lived where the old vahahkkees now are in the Gila country, and some lived in the Papago country, and some in the Salt River country. And those who...
Stories Of The Fourth Night. Notes : p. 234 NOTES ON THE STORY OF CLOUD In Emory's report, before alluded to, also in Captain Johnston's, we find variants of The Story of the Children of Cloud. Thirsty Hawk, the Maricopa, told Emory "that in bygone days a woman of surpassing beauty resided in a green spot in the mountains, near where...
Stories Of The First Night. The Story Of The Flood : p. 36 THE STORY OF THE FLOOD NOW Seeurhuh was very powerful, like Juhwerta Mahkai, and as he took up his residence with them, as one of them, he did many wonderful things which pleased Juhwerta Mahkai, who liked to watch him. And after doing many marvelous things he, too, made a man. And to this...
Title Page : AW-AW-TAM INDIAN NIGHTS BEING THE MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF THE PIMAS OF ARIZONA AS RECEIVED BY J. WILLIAM LLOYD FROM COMALK-HAWK-KIH (THIN BUCKSKIN) THRU THE INTERPRETATION OF EDWARD HUBERT WOOD PRICE 1.50 POSTPAID THE LLOYD GROUP, WESTFIELD, N. J. Copyright, 1911, By John William Lloyd [1911] Scanned...
Stories Of The Third Night. Notes : p. 190 NOTES ON THE STORY OF PAHTAHNKUM In this, in the smoking at the war-council, appears a curious superstition concerning the effect of a man's smoking upon his unborn child. Another superstition appears in the idea that the killing of an Apache and throwing up of his accoutrements or scalp...
Stories Of The Fourth Night. The Story : p. 235 THE STORY OF TCHEUNASSAT SEEVEN STCHEUADACK Seeven wanted to gamble with Tcheunassat Seeven, who lived at Kawtkee Oyyeeduck, and sent a man with an invitation to come and play against him, and bring all his wives. And Tcheunassat Seeven said: "I will go, for my wives are used to travelling...
The Story Of These Stories : COMALK-HAWKIH (THIN BUCKSKIN) The old Seeneeyawkum p. 1 THE STORY OF THESE STORIES WHEN I was at the Pan-American Fair, at Buffalo, in July, 1901, I one day strolled into the Bazaar and drifted naturally to the section where Indian curios were displayed for sale by J. W. Benham. Behind the counter...
Stories Of The Third Night. The Story : p. 145 STORIES OF THE THIRD NIGHT p. 147 THE STORY OF EE-EE-TOY'S ARMY AND after Ee-ee-toy was thru speaking Juhwerta Mahkai addressed him, and promised him his help, and that he would lead out to earth again his people, who had sunk down before the flood, that these might fight against the people...
Stories Of The Third Night. The Story. Part 02 : p. 173 THE STORY OF PAHTAHNKUM AND when they came to their journey's end the wife of Kaw-koin-puh had a baby, which grew up to be a fine boy, but the mother cried all the time, wherever she went, on account of her husband's death. And the people, after they had settled down, used to go...
Stories Of The Second Night. Notes On Ee : p. 143 NOTES ON EE-EE-TOY'S RESURRECTION The Story of Ee-ee-toy's Resurrection is perhaps the most poetic in the series, and the opening picture of him lying on the ground, lifeless, with the elements lamenting over him and the little children playing on him, might challenge the genius of a gre...
Stories Of The Third Night. The Story. Part 03 : p. 166 THE STORY OF SOHAHNEE MAHKAI AND KAWKOINPUH NOW when the bands were going thru this country they had selected the places for their homes, expecting to return, and each band, as it selected its place, drove down short sticks so as to know it again. And after returning across the Rio Colorado...
Stories Of The First Night. The Story : p. 72 THE STORY OF VANDAIH, THE MAN-EAGLE AND thus Ahahnheteatoepahk Mahkai became famous for the killing of game; and there was another young man, named "Van-daih", who wanted to be his friend, So one day Vandaih made him four tube-pipes of cane, such as the Indians use for ceremonious smoking...
Stories Of The Second Night. Songs : p. 131 THE SONG OF NOOEE WHEN HE WENT TO THE SUN The Rising (Sun) I am going to meet. (Repeated many times) WHEN NOOEE KILLED EE-EE-TOY 1 (A Song) The gun, he gave it to me as a cane; With it I killed the Brother's heart. FOOTNOTES 131:1 The reference to the "gun" shows clearly that this song w...
Stories Of The First Night. Notes On Story : p. 34 NOTES ON STORY OF CREATION The idea of creating the earth from the perspiration and waste cuticle of the Creator is, I believe, original. The local touch in making the greasewood bush the first vegetation is very strong. In the tipping over of the earth three times, and its standing right...
Stories Of The First Night. Juhwerta Mahkai's : p. 33 JUHWERTA MAHKAI'S SONG OF CREATION Juhwerta mahkai made the world-- Come and see it and make it useful! He made it round-- Come and see it and make it useful!
Stories Of The First Night. Songs : p. 51 JUHWERTA MAHKAI'S SONG BEFORE THE FLOOD My poor people, Who will see, Who will see This water which will moisten the earth! THE SONG OF SUPERSTITION MOUNTAINS We are destroyed! By my stone we are destroyed! We are rightly turned into stone. EE-EE-TOY'S SONG WHEN HE MADE THE WORLD SERPENTS I...
Stories Of The Fourth Night. The Legend : p. 241 THE LEGEND OF BLACKWATER A little off from the road between Sacaton, and Casa Grande Ruins there is, or was in the old days, a mysterious pool of dark water, which the Indians regarded with superstitious awe. They said it was of fathomless depth, that it communicated with the oce...
Stories Of The Third Night. The Song Of Koelhahah : p. 189 THE SONG OF KOELHAHAH ABOUT HER SON My poor child, there will be great things happen you! And there will be great news all over the world because of my boy. The news will go in all directions.
Stories Of The Second Night. The Story. Part 02 : p. 103 THE STORY OF WAYHOHM, TOEHAHVS AND TOTTAI AND Seeollstchewadack Seeven wondered what this action of the bird meant, and he studied about it till he found out who it was that had sent the bird and for what purpose. And he sent a cold rain upon the home of Dthas; Seeven. And it rained a heavy...
Stories Of The Second Night. Notes. Part 03 : p. 105 NOTES ON THE STORY OF WAYHOHM There is a suggestion of Thor in the Story of Wayhohm, and also of Prometheus. Wayhohm's house must have been the hall of the clouds. How true to nature, here, is the touch describing the Coyote-person, Toehahvs. The excessive caution of the coyote, making it...
Stories Of The First Night. Notes. Part 02 : p. 71 NOTES ON THE STORY OF AH-AHN-HE-EAT-TOE-PAHK MAHKAI In the story of Ah-ahn-he-eat-toe-pahk Mahkai we are introduced to the Indian faith in dreams and to more witchcraft. We come, too, to the national sport of rabbit-hunting, with its picturesqueness and excitement. In the transaction between...
Stories Of The Fourth Night. The Story. Part 05 : p. 191 STORIES OF THE FOURTH NIGHT p. 193 THE STORY OF THE GAMBLER'S WAR AND after this, for a long time, there was peace toward the Apaches, but it happened, once, that two brothers of the country went to gamble with the Awup, playing the game called "waw-pah-tee" in which the gamblers guess...
Stories Of The Fourth Night. Songs : p. 240 A SONG OF TCHEUNASSAT SEEVEN There stands a dead vahahkkee On top of it there runs back and forth the Seeven And he has a robe with yellow hand prints on it. THE LARK'S SONG ABOUT HIS LOST WIFE 1 My poor wife! In the West she seems to be bound by the song of the Bamboo. FOOTNOTES 240:1 This...
Stories Of The Second Night. Notes On How : p. 132 NOTES ON HOW NOOEE KILLED EE-EE-TOY The hot arrows of Ee-ee-toy, that withered the crops, remind us of Apollo. The idea often comes up in these stories that a person possessing the powers of a mahkai was hard to kill, having as many lives as a cat. It would also appear that there w...
Stories Of The Second Night. How Nooee Killed : p. 125 HOW NOOEE KILLED EE-EE-TOY E-EE-TOY lived in the Salt River Mountain, which is called by the Awawtam Moehahdheck, or the Brown Mountain, and whenever the girls had ceremonial dances because of their arrival at womanhood he would come and sing the appropriate songs. And it often happened...
Stories Of The Third Night. Songs : p. 153 THE FIRST SONG OF EE-EE-TOY'S ARMY The White Earth I come to and sing; Where many war-bonnets are shaking with the wind; There we come together to dance and to sing. THE DOCTOR'S SONG TO THE HUNTERS Sahn-a-mahl! 1 Haymohl give me the necklace! Sooadack Ceeavawt give me the turquoise...
Stories Of The Fourth Night. Notes. Part 02 : p. 230 NOTES ON THE STORY OF CORN AND TOBACCO In the Story of Corn and Tobacco we touch the superstitions about rain, the most desired thing in the desert. The mahkais used tobacco in their incantations, both for curing sickness and for making rain. It would appear that the Piman mind confused...
Stories Of The First Night. The Story. Part 03 : THE STORY OF THE CREATION In the beginning there was no earth, no water--nothing. There was only a Person, "Juh-wert-a-Mah-kai" (The Doctor of the Earth). He just floated, for there was no place for him to stand upon. There was no sun, no light, and he just floated about in the darkness, which w...
Stories Of The Third Night. Notes. Part 03 : p. 163 NOTES ON THE STORY OF EE-EE-TOY'S ARMY AND THAT OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE VAHAKKEES In the Story of Ee-ee-toy's Army we come to an amusing superstition of the Pimas. There is a funny little creature in Arizona, related to the tarantula, perhaps, which the Pimas say is very poisonous...
Songs : p. 162 SONG BEFORE THE FIGHT WITH CH-HAHVO SEEVEN 1 In the land where there are a great many galley-worms-- I will get the doctor out, It will lighten his heart. A SONG OF THE DOCTOR WHOSE SNAKE THREW DOWN THE VAHAHKKEE I made the black snake; And he went across and wounded the vahahkkee...
Stories Of The Fourth Night. The Story. Part 03 : p. 217 THE STORY OF CORN AND TOBACCO 1 THERE was a powerful mahkai who had a daughter, who, tho old enuf, was unmarried, and who grew tired of her single life and asked her father to bury her, saying, we will see then if the men will care for me. And from her grave grew the plant tobacco, and her...
