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NABHAN, Gary P., and Amadeo REA (1988) Plant domestication and folk-biological change: The upper Piman/devils claw example.
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CAHITA, a group of North American Indians, mainly of the Mayo and Yaqui tribes, found chiefly in Mexico, belonging to the Piman family, and numbering some 40,000.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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Once an important tribe of the Piman branch of the great Shoshonean linguistic stock, occupying the territory of the Santa Cruz and San
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Their language is known as Cahita, being the same as that spoken, with dialectic differences, by their neighbours, the Tehueco, and Yaqui, and belonging to the Piman branch of the great Shoshonean stock.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Linguistically they belong to the Piman branch of the widely extended Shoshonean stock, and their language, with dialectic variation, is the same as that spoken also by the Pápago and extinct Sobaipuri of southern Arizona, and by the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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It's a long hike, Barbara, but we gotta make it -- we gotta, for if daylight finds us in the Piman country we won't never make it.
The Mucker Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912
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Jose was a Piman, and she immediately connected Jose with the perpetration, or at least the planning of her abduction.
The Mucker Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912
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Down the two men went, the American on top, each striving for a death-hold; but in weight and strength and skill the Piman was far outclassed by the trained fighter, a part of whose daily workouts had consisted in wrestling with proficient artists of the mat.
The Mucker Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912
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Now, indeed, were they sure that they had chanced upon the trail to the Piman village.
The Mucker Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912
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The consanguinity of this phratry may have been close to that of the Shoshonean tribes, as that of the Patki was to the Piman, or the Asa to the Tanoan.
Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 Jesse Walter Fewkes 1890
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