. Bulletin. Ethnology. 598 BUREAU OF AMERICAlsr ETHNOLOGY [bull. 78 is the dress of the nomadic Southwestern or Phiteaii Shoshonean tribes, and unconnected with that of the southern or central Cali- fornians or the Mohave, although the Serrano tell of having worn a similar costume. The Mohave, however, declare the Chemehuevi men to have worn their hair in the peculiar style characteristic of themselves and the Yuma. Houses need have been little else than shelters against the sun and wind. The sweat house has not been reported. Open-air storage baskets are also not mentioned; most of the Chemeh
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 598 BUREAU OF AMERICAlsr ETHNOLOGY [bull. 78 is the dress of the nomadic Southwestern or Phiteaii Shoshonean tribes, and unconnected with that of the southern or central Cali- fornians or the Mohave, although the Serrano tell of having worn a similar costume. The Mohave, however, declare the Chemehuevi men to have worn their hair in the peculiar style characteristic of themselves and the Yuma. Houses need have been little else than shelters against the sun and wind. The sweat house has not been reported. Open-air storage baskets are also not mentioned; most of the Chemehuevi habitat would furnish more safe and dry rock crevices than food to keep in them. BELIEFS. The Chemehuevi origin myth is free from southern Californian or Southwestern suggestions. It does recall the central Californian account of the creation, but evidently only in so far as it rests upon a Plateau set of conceptions, and these in turn approxi- mate those current in California. There is little that is common with the mythology of the Yokuts, the nearest of the central Californians. Fig. 54.—chemoiuievi dice of The heroes are Coyote and his elder brother Puma—the Chemehuevi equivalent of the Wolf of the northern Plateau—who build a house on Charles- ton Peak while the world is still covered with water. When the earth has become dry through the instrumentality of an old woman in the west, Hawichyepam Maapuch, Coyote, failing to find men, marries a louse, from whose eggs spring many tribes. The Chemehuevi themselves, however, the Mohave, and other south- erners come from Coyote's own voidings. They are taught to eat game by being given parts of a person, a human example of animal food. Puma is killed by eastern enemies, who, unwinding a power- ful object that he has made, bring on the first and an unbroken night. Coyote mourns, but wishes daylight to burn his brother's belongings. He restores it when he shoots the yellow-hanmier. After the completion of the funerary rit
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