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ILMAWI IMNANGANA 



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Alaska the wick edge is 2 or 3 in. long, 

 in Smith .sd. it is '46 in. in length, and 

 between these geographical extremes 

 there is an increase in the size of the 

 lamp from lower to higher latitudes. In 

 at least two localities in the United States 

 the bodies of tish were burned for light — 

 the candle-fish of the N. VV. coast and a 

 fresh-water fish of Penobscot r. in Maine. 



Torches and fires were used for signal- 

 ing at night; the Apache set fire to the 

 resinous spines of the saguaro, or giant 

 cactus, for this purpose. The picturesque 

 and remarkable Fire-dance of the Navaho 

 described by Matthews is a good example 

 of the use of illumination in ceremonies. 

 Among many tribes fire forms an essential 

 part of a ceremony; in some cases, where 

 Indians have been induced to rehearse a 

 night ceremony by day, they do not omit 

 the fire, though artificial light is not re- 

 quired. A law of the Iroquois League 

 required that a messenger approaching a 

 camp-fire or village at night should carry 

 a torch in order to show the absence of 

 hostile intent. See Fire-making. 



Consult Hough (1) Development of 

 Illumination, Smithson. Rep. 1901, 1902, 

 (2) The Range of the Eskimo Lamp, Am. 

 Anthrop., Apr. 1898, (3) The Lamp of the 

 Eskimo, Rep. Nat. Mus. 1896, 1898; Mat- 

 thews, Mountain Chant. 5th Rep. B. A. f]., 

 1887. (w. H.) 



ilmawi (own name; from ihna, 'river' ). 

 A tribe of the Achomawi division of the 

 Shastan family, formerly living on the s. 

 side of Pit r., opposite Ft Crook, Shasta 



CO., Cal. 



Hlmawees.— Powers in Overland Mo., xii, 412, 



1874. Il-ma'-wi.— Powers in Cent. N. A. Etlinol., 



III, '267, 1877. 



Ilrak {Prak). A former village of the 

 Ntshaautin sept of the TakuUi of British 

 Columbia. — Morice in Trans. Can. Inst., 



IV, 25, 1893. 



Ilsethlthawaiame. A former village of 

 the Mishikhwutmetunne on Coquiller., 



Oreg. 



Il'-sepl 9a-wai-a-me.— Dorsey in Jour. Am. Folk- 

 lore, iii 232,1890. 



Iluilek. An Eskimo village, now de- 

 serted, on the E. coast of Greenland, lat. 

 60° 20^ 



Illuidlek.— Das Ausland , 162, 1886. Iluilek. — Med- 

 delelser cm Gronland, xxv, 23, 1902. 



Imagnee. A former Aleut village on 

 Summer bav, Unalaska, e. Aleutian ids. ; 

 pop. 32 in 1830, 34 in 1884. 

 tmagnak.— PetrofE in 10th Census, Alaska, 34, 1884. 

 Imagnee.— Baker, GeoR. Diet. Alaska, 215, 1902. 

 Imagninskoe. — Veniaminoff, Zapiski, ll, 202, 1840. 

 Sinagnia.— Sarichef (1790) quoted by Baker, op. 

 cit. 



Imaha. A Quapaw village mentioned 

 by La Metairie in 1682 and by Iberville 

 in 1699, and visited by La Harpe in 1719. 

 It was situated on a s. w. branch of Ar- 

 kansas r. In the wars and contentions 

 of the 18th and 19th centuries some of 

 the Quapaw tribe fled from their more 

 northerly villages and took refuge among 



the Caddo, finally becoming a recognized 

 division of the confederacy. These were 

 called Imaha, but whether the people 

 composing this division were from the 

 village Imaha, mentioned by the early 

 French travelers, is not absolutely known. 

 The people of the Imaha division of the 

 Caddo confederacy for some time re- 

 tained their own language, which was 

 Siouan. See Mooney in 14th Rep. B. A. 

 E., 1092, 1896. (a. c. F.) 



Imaham. — La Harpe (1719) in French, Hist. Coll. 

 La., pt III, 73, 1S5] . Imahans. — Jefferys, Am. Atlas, 

 map 5, 1776. Imahao. — Iberville (1699 ) in Margry, 

 Dee., IV, 179, 1880. 



Imaklimiut. An Eskimo tribe occupy- 

 ing Big Uiomede id., Bering strait. See 

 Okiixjuiiut. 



Achjuch-Aliat. — Dall in Smithson. Cont., xxii, 2, 

 1880. Imach-leet.— Jackson, Reindeer in Alaska, 

 map, 145, 1894. Imah-kli-mut. — Dall in Proc. A. A. 

 A. S., XXXIV, 377, 1886. Imakleet.— Wells and Kel- 

 ly, Eskimo-English and Eng.-Esk. Vocabs., chart, 

 1890. Imaklitgmut.— Zagdskiu, Desc. Russ. Poss. 

 in Am., I, 73, 1S47. Inalugmiut. — Wool fe in 11th 

 Census, Alaska, 130, 1893 (given to inhabitants of 

 both islands; see Inalik). Yikirga'ulit.— Bogo- 

 ras, Chukehee, 21, 1904 (Chukchi name for in- 

 habitants of Diomede ids.). 



Imarsivik. An Eskimo village of 21 

 people on the e. coast of Greenland. — 

 Nansen, PZskimo Life, 124, 1894. 



Imekpung {Iim^kpun). An Utkiavin- 

 miut Eskimo camp near Pt Barrow, 

 Alaska.— Murdoch in 9th Rep. B. A. E., 

 274, 1892. 



Imiak. A Togiagmiut village at the out- 

 let of Aleknagik lake, Alaska. — Tebenkof 

 (1849) quoted by Baker, Geog. Diet. 

 Alaska, 1902. 



Imiclie. A Californian tribe cited sev- 

 eral times and mentioned once as on 

 Kaweah r., Cal., which location, if cor- 

 rect, would make it part of the Mariposan 

 stock. The Wimilchi of Kings r. may 

 have been meant. 



Eemitches.— Bancroft, Nat. Races, I, 863, 1874. 

 Y-Mitches.— Henley in Ind. Aff. Rep., 511, 1854 (at 

 Fourrivers, near Tulare r.). Ymitches. — Bancroft, 

 op. cit., I, 4.56 (misquoted from Henley). 



Imigen ( ' fresh water ' ) . One of the two 

 winter villages of the Kinguamiut, a 

 branch of the Okomiut Eskimo, on an 

 island at the head of Cumberland sd. ; 

 pop. 17 in 1883.— Boas in 6th Rep. B.A.E., 

 map, 1888. 



Imik. A former Aleut village on Agattu 

 id., Alaska, one of the Near id. group of 

 the Aleutians, now uninhabited. 



Immaculate Conception. A mission es- 

 tablished by Marquette in 1674 among 

 the Kaskaskia, near Rookford, 111. 



Immaculate Conception. — Shea, Cath. Miss., 406, 

 18.55. Immaculee Conception de Notre Dame aux 

 Illinois.— Gravier(?) (1694) quoted by Shea, ibid., 

 419. 



Immahal. A former Chumashan village 

 in Ventura co., Cal., "not far from Jos6 

 Carrillo's rancho" in 1856. — Taylor in 

 Cal. Farmer, May 4, 1860. 



Imnangana. The southernmost winter 

 settlement of the Ita Eskimo, situated at 

 C. York, N. Greenland. 



