19. She went east until she came to Hawi, where she slept. Then she went on to Avi-hoalye, the Walapai mountains.[23] There were many girls among the (Walapai) people living there, and she played with them and stayed with them a year. She liked it there. (30 songs.)
[23] Hoalye means yellow pine. The name Walapai, hawaly-ipai in Mohave, seems to be derived from this word.
20. After a year she went back. When she returned, she was ashamed and sat outside the house. She did not go indoors to her parents. She was painted red. The people she had been with, the Walapai, had given her the paint. The Mohave do not paint like that. So they did not know who she was. She sat with her head bowed. Then Umas-kwitšit-patše came out. "That is my daughter," he said. (10 songs.)
21. He said to her: "I thought you had died. When a woman visits her friends among another tribe, she stays two months or three months. You stayed a year and I thought you were dead." Then, after four days, Umas-kwitšit-patše said: "Now it is four days. I am ready to fight. The people I am going to attack do not live very far away. But I think my daughter is tired. Have you become tired?" But Ilya-owitš-maikohwere said: "No, I am not tired. I will go with you." When they came to Amaṭ-tasilyke and Aθ'i-kupome, the people whom they had pursued before and who had fled there and were still living there, saw them, and took their property and fled north once more. They ran to Sokwilye-ihu.[24] There they lay down for the night. Umas-kwitšit-patše and his people slept at Selye'aye-'itš-patše,[25] downriver from them. Then Umas-kwitšit-patše named a mesa near by: Havateitše-'isnave. (40 songs.)
[24] "Hawk-nose." Not far from Fort Mohave.
[25] Near the river, on the irrigation canal in use at Fort Mohave in 1904. Selye'aye is sand.
22. Then he started again. Now he wanted to kill the people at Sokwilye-'ihu. Savilyuyave,[26] his younger brother, was the head man among those who had fled. When Umas-kwitšit-patše and his people came to Sokwilye-'ihu, they fought. Soon Savilyuyave's people ran away and jumped into the river. Savilyuyave himself was killed in the river. He sank to the bottom and they seized him, dragged him on the bank, and scalped him. His daughter[27] they took as a slave. Umas-kwitšit-patše's people went back downriver to Selye'aye'-kumitše.[28] (5 songs.)
[26] Also the name of a Mohave who died not many years before 1903.
[27] Her name was said also to be Ilya-owitš-maikohwere. Owitš is one of the women's clan-names. As Umas-kwitšit-patše and Savilyuyave were brothers, and of the Owitš group, their daughters would both be named Owitš. In reply to a question, the informant stated decisively that all the people accompanying Umas-kwitšit-patše called their daughters Owitš, showing that he regarded them as a clan. The totemic reference of the clan is to clouds.
[28] A mesa approaching the river about two miles south of Fort Mohave.