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4 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 44
Pima
The Pima are scattered, as shown by the map, in five isolated
groups, as follows:
Pima Alto (Upper Pima).
Pima Bajo (Lower Pima).
Potlapigiia.
Pima of Bamoa.
Tepehuane colony.
Pima Alto.—As the Indians of this group are confined chiefly to
the United States and are referred to in the Seventh Annual Report
of the Bureau of American Ethnology, and as the area is marked on
the linguistic map accompanying that Report, it is unnecessary to
discuss them here.
Pima Bajo.—The Lower Pima extended east and west along the
lower middle portion of the Yaqvii river, joining the Tarahumare on
the east, the Opata on the north, the Yaqui on the south, and the Seri
on the west. These are substantially the boundaries given by Orozco
y Berra, and are based chiefly on the position of villages in which
the Piman language was spoken. However, the evidence in regard
to the narrow strip extending along the south bank of the San Jose
river to the Gulf, as shown on the map, is not entirely satisfactory.
It is also possible that the eastern boundary has been carried a
short distance into the Tarahumare territory.
Father Ribas (370) mentions as pueblos of the Lower Pima: Como-
ripa, Tecoripa, Zuaque (Suaque), and Aivino. The last two determine
the extreme northern boundary as given by Orozco y Berra,
while the first was located on the Yaqui river not far from the southern
boundary. His statement (358) that the pueblos of the Movas,
Onavas, and Nuri belonged to the Upper Pima must be a misprint
or a clerical error, as they were certainly situated in the territory of the
Pima Bajo, and he must have known this; however, there is further
mention of this point below. The situation of the Nuri pueblo determines
the extreme southern point of the area in the map, and Nocori
the northwestern extension. However, the pueblos of Yepachic and
Tonachic in the eastern part of the territory, as laid down by Orozco y
Berra, appear, from the termination of the names, to be of Tarahumare
origin, and this supposition seems to be confirmed by the statement
of Juan Ortiz Zapata (340) that these two pueblos were included
among the Tarahumare missions. A slight change from Orozco y
Berra's eastern boundary line has therefore been made to correspond
with this evidence. Though the Pima language may possibly have
been spoken at these two missions, the names betray the fact that
the pueblos were originally Tarahumare.
Potlapigua.—An isolated group of Pima, named Potlapigua, is men-
tioned by Orozco y Berra (1:348) in the region of Babispe, on the