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6 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 44<br />

Further examination of this point will be found in the notes relating<br />

to the Seri.<br />

Reference to the supposed tribes or subtribes Albino (or Aivino),<br />

Movas (or Mobas), Comuripa (or Comoripa), Onavas (or Onabas),<br />

Tecoripa, and Nuri is again made in order to give briefly the reasons<br />

for omitting them from the map. As stated above, they are considered<br />

by Orozco y Berra as merely pueblos in which the Pima<br />

language was spoken without such dialectic differences as to justify<br />

considering them distinct. As a rule, all dialects referred to by early<br />

authors writing of this section are spoken of as "distinct" or "par-<br />

ticular" languages, though the writers recognized their affinities.<br />

In regard to the Onava and Tecoripa, it seems to be fairly inferred<br />

from the statements byCancio (155-156) that they spoke the Piman<br />

language. This agrees with the statement by Zapata (358-361)<br />

that the language spoken at Tecoripa, Cumuripa, and Onava was<br />

Pima, and that at Mova the language was partly Pima and partly<br />

Egue (Eudeve), and hence not distinct. Velarde (399) calls the-<br />

Indians of Tecoripa, and also the Albino, Pima. Ribas (370) includes<br />

the pueblos Comoripa, Tecoripa, and Albino among those of the<br />

Lower Pima.<br />

The last-named author (299, 358) speaks of the Nuri as Nebome<br />

(Pima) and on the latter page connects them with the Upper Pima,<br />

but on page 369 says they are a nation of a language different from<br />

that of the Upper Pima, though not very distant from them.<br />

However, according to Orozco y Berra (1:351) they inhabited the<br />

pueblo of Nuri, which was certainly Lower Pima. It seems from<br />

Ribas (lib. vi, cap. vi) that the Nuri he refers to as belonging to or<br />

adjoining the Upper Pima were a different people from those occupying<br />

the Nuri pueblo.<br />

Although Hamy places these names (except Tecoripa) on his map<br />

heretofore referred to, and notwithstanding the fact that they are<br />

spoken of as "naciones," there is not sufficient evidence to warrant<br />

the conclusion that they spoke distinct dialects. Ribas (373-374),<br />

speaking of the Aivino and other pueblos of that immediate section<br />

(en todaesta tierra adetro), says two languages were current through-<br />

out, and that Padre Olinano, who preached to them, understood well<br />

the two languages of these nations. However, he fails to state<br />

what languages these were. By turnmg to Zapata's Relacion, here-<br />

tofore referred to, some light on this point may be obtained.<br />

Speaking of the Mobas (361), he says their language, as mentioned<br />

above, was partly Pima and partly Egue (Eudeve), which so far<br />

agrees with Ribas's statement and indicates the two languages to<br />

which the latter refers.

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