. Bulletin. Ethnology. dbnsmore] YUMAN AND YAQUI MUSIC States and the arrival of the overland tide of travel, but the Yuma offered no particular resistance to the white man. Their last military undertaking was an expedition against the Pima in 1858, which ended disastrously. The ancient enemy of all the Yuman tribes was the Maricopa, living along the Gila River. The Yuma call themselves Kwichana, Kwichyana, or Kuchiana, the meaning of which is unknown to them. A Spanish designation CALIFORNIA_ Td\^fR CALIFORNIA. Figure 1.—Map showing Yuma Reservation is Garroteros, clubbers, perhaps with refer
. Bulletin. Ethnology. dbnsmore] YUMAN AND YAQUI MUSIC States and the arrival of the overland tide of travel, but the Yuma offered no particular resistance to the white man. Their last military undertaking was an expedition against the Pima in 1858, which ended disastrously. The ancient enemy of all the Yuman tribes was the Maricopa, living along the Gila River. The Yuma call themselves Kwichana, Kwichyana, or Kuchiana, the meaning of which is unknown to them. A Spanish designation CALIFORNIA_ Td\^fR CALIFORNIA. Figure 1.—Map showing Yuma Reservation is Garroteros, clubbers, perhaps with reference to their mallet or pestle shaped war clubs. Father Kino wrote of the Yuma in 1690,^ and the word " Yuma " appears first in his writings. The name is said to be derived from Yahmayo, meaning " son of the captain,'' which is seemingly the title of the son of the hereditary chief, con- tracted and applied to the tribe through misunderstanding by early Spanish missionaries.^ Father Kino and Father Garces encountered few difficulties among the Yuma, but two missions established later among the Yuma were destroyed in 1781, having been in existence only a year or two. The Spanish missionaries were massacred and the missions obliterated. Early writers describe the Yuma as a fine people physically, and superior in this respect to most of their neighbors. They were brave and not averse to war, but generally stayed in their villages, where «Doc. Hist. Mex., 4th s., vol. 1, p. 230. »Bull. 30, Bur. Amer. Ethn., pt. 2, p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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