This is a rare book of Pima folklore,
transcribed by a sympathetic amateur
ethnographer at the beginning of the twentieth century.
The Pima live in the arid deserts of southern Arizona,
and originally survived by horticulture and hunting/gathering.
Lloyd was not a linguist, and collected the stories through
an interpreter.
All of the Pima words and phrases are written
using a crude 'phonetic' system, which no doubt is fairly inaccurate.
However, this does not invalidate the folklore, which is well-told
and consistent with other southwestern Native American mythology,
particularly in its repetition of the number four.
