AW-AW-TAM INDIAN NIGHTS (THE MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF THE PIMAS OF ARIZONA FROM COMALK-HAWK-KIH (THIN BUCKSKIN)) - Annotated NATIVE AMERICAN MYTHS AND FOLKLORE

This is a rare book of Southwestern Native Americans Folklore, the Pima, who residents of the deserts of southern Arizona., transcribed by a sympathetic amateur ethnographer at the beginning of the twentieth century. The Pima live in the arid deserts of southern Arizona, and originally survived by horticulture and hunting/gathering. Lloyd was not a linguist, and collected the stories through an interpreter. All of the Pima words and phrases are written using a crude 'phonetic' system, which no doubt is fairly inaccurate. However, this does not invalidate the folklore, which is well-told and consistent with other southwestern Native American mythology, particularly in its repetition of the number four.