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| | Folk Mammalogy of the Northern Pimans. University of Arizona Press. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | Specifically, it tells how the Northern Pimans of the Sonoran Desert and adjacent areas understand and interact with the furred creatures of their local environment. |
 | | Piman ha'ichu doakam'something alive' in the sense of animate, seems to group most, if not all, animals in contrast to plants, ha'ichu wuushdag'something that grows up' or emerges. |
 | | Some of the most important Upper Piman foods, such as White-crowned Sparrows, mesquite pods, and cotton rats, have in practice dropped from the diets of contemporary O'odham but are remembered by old people as not only significant, but esteemed components of the Piman dietary (Rea 1991). |
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