Comalk-Hawk-Kih

Comalk-Hawk-Kih was an Akimel O'odham (Pima) storyteller associated with Aw-Aw-Tam Indian Nights: Being the Myths and Legends of the Pimas of Arizona. Project Gutenberg and The Online Books Page both list him as an author of that work.

Smithsonian records identify him as an Akimel O'odham singer and storyteller whose songs were recorded on wax cylinders on the Gila River Reservation in 1903. Those records also note that he was known as Thin Buckskin, and in one archival description as William Higgins.

The surviving notes around Aw-Aw-Tam Indian Nights suggest he learned these stories through oral tradition, hearing them from his father and later making a point of learning them carefully. That makes his published work especially valuable today: it carries forward stories that were passed from one generation to the next rather than written down at first.