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INAJALAIHU INDELCHIDNTI 



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tions the Himeris (who are evidently the 

 inhabitants of this settlement) , with the 

 Opata. If they belonged to the latter, 

 Imures was doubtless the last Opata set- 

 tlement toward the n., and the earlier 

 writers did not, in this case, distinguish 

 the Opata from the Pima. Imuris was 

 visited by Father Kino as early as 1699, 

 and the bell in its church bears the date 

 1680. It was afterward a visita of San 

 Ignacio mission (Rudo Ensavo, ca. 1762, 

 153, 1863), with 80 inhabitants in 1730. 

 It is now a civilized pueblo. Of its 637 

 inhabitants in 1900, 74 were Mayo and 32 

 Yaqui. (f. w. h.) 



Himares.— Kino, map, in Stocklein, Neue Welt- 

 Bott, 74, 172t). Himeris.— Orozco y Berra, Geog., 

 58, 344, 1864. Himuri.— Rudo EiLsayo (ca. 1762), 

 153, 1863. Imoris.— Bo.x, Adventures, 277, 1869. 

 Imures. — Kino (1696) in Doc. Hist. Mex., 4th 

 s., I, 267, 1856. Imurez.— Hardy, Travels, 427, 

 1829. Imuri.— Kino {ca. lt;99) in Doe. Hist. Max., 

 4th s., I, 348, 1856. Imuris.— Font, map (1777) in 

 Bancroft, Ariz, and N. Mex., 393, 1889. Imuriz.— 

 Hardy, Travels, 432, 1829. S. Jose Imuri.— Rivera 

 (1730) in Bancroft, No. Mex. States, i, 514, 1884. 

 TJburiquJ.- Kino {ca. 1699) in Doc. Hist. Mex., 4th 

 s., I, .'^4-^, 18.56. Ymurez.— Bandelier, Gilded Man, 

 179, 1893. 



Inajalaihu. A former Chumashan vil- 

 lage near Santa Barbara, Cal. — Bancroft, 

 Nat. Races, i, 459. 1874. 



Inalik. An Inguklimiut village on 

 Little Diomede id., Alaska. The name 

 of the people was extended by Woolfe 

 (11th Census, Alaska, 130, 1893) to in- 

 clude the inhabitants of both islands. — 

 Nelson, 18th Rep. B. A. E., map, 1899. 



Inam. The best known village of the 

 upper division of the Karok, speaking 

 the Karakuka dialect. Situated on Kla- 

 math r., at or near the mouth of Clear cr., 

 N. w. Cal. It was the scene of the Deer- 

 skin dance and of an annual "world- 

 making" ceremony. (a. l. k. ) 

 E-nam.— Taylor in Cal. Farmer, Mar. 23, 1860. 



Inaqtek (LuVkhtek, 'raven'). A sub- 

 phratrv or gensof the Menominee. — Hoff- 

 man in 14th Rep. B. A. E., pt. i, 42, 1896. 



Inaspetsum. One of the tribes included 

 by the early fur traders under he term 

 Nez Perce (Ross, Fur Hunters, i, 185, 

 1855) . They lived on Columbia r. , above 

 the mouth of the Snake, in Washington. 

 Perhaps they were the Winatshipum or 

 the Kalispel. (l. f. ) 



Incense. Incense, from the Latin incen- 

 dere, 'to burn,' is defined as anything 

 burned to produce a pleasant sweet smell 

 during religious rites. It may be regard- 

 ed as direct sacrifice, as symbolic of as- 

 cending prayer, or as an aid to spiritual ex- 

 altation. Incense has been in almost uni- 

 versal use from the earliest historic period, 

 particularly in the more highlj- organized 

 ancient religions. In Mexico and adja- 

 cent parts various resinous gums known 

 collectively under the Aztec name of 

 copalli, or copal, were used. North of the 

 Rio Grande the plant substances most 

 commonly employed forthe same purpose 



were tobacco, in various native varieties; 

 the dried tops of Thuja, and other ce- 

 dars; spruce and pine needles, particu- 

 larly those of Abies and Pimcs pottderosa; 

 s weetgrass ( Savastana odorata ) , Artemisia, 

 and the root of the balsam-root [Balsum- 

 orrliiza). Tobacco was used in one way 

 or another in important ceremonials over 

 almost the whole area of the United States 

 and along the N. W. coast, and in the 

 Canadian interior. Pine needles w'ere 

 most connnonly used among the Pueblos 

 and other tribes of the S. W. In the 

 noted Hopi snake dance the smoke of 

 burning juniper tops was blown through 

 tubes known as "cloud-blowers" until the 

 kiva was filled with the pleasing fra- 

 grance. Cedar tops, sweet grass, and 

 wild sage were more common in cere- 

 monies of the Plains Indians, especially 

 the Peyote rite, and parcels of the dried 

 substance were sometimes attached to 

 sacrifice poles or deposited with the 

 corpse in the grave or on the scaffold. 

 With some triljes the twigs and leaves of 

 the plant were differentiated as male and 

 female. The balsam root was burned in 

 small quantities in every great sweat- 

 house rite among the Plains tribes and 

 was held so precious that sometimes a 

 horse was given for a single root. Among 

 the Siksika, according to Wissler, every 

 tipi contains an altar — a small excavation 

 in the earth — where sweet gum is burned 

 daily. 



There were also a number of vegetal 

 perfumes used for personal gratification, 

 either by rubbing the juice of the crushed 

 plant over the skin or by wearing the 

 leaves or dried tops in little bags at- 

 tached to the clothing. The Southern 

 XJte mother placed sweet-smelling herbs 

 under the pillow of her baby. One of 

 tlie ingredients of the secret medicine 

 employed by the Buffalo doctors among 

 the Plains tribes in treating wounds is be- 

 lieved to have been the strong smelling 

 musk of the beaver. (j. m. ) 



Incha. An unidentified tribe said to have 

 lived where there were Spanish settle- 

 ments and to have been at war with the 

 Mantons (Mento) of Arkansas r. in 1700. 

 Icca.— Iberville (1702) in Margry, D^c, iv, 561, 

 18S0. Incha.— Ibid., 599. 



Inchi ( L'^tci, ' stone lodge ' ) . A village 

 occupied by the Kansa in their migration 

 up Kansas r. — J. O. Dorsey, inf'n, 1882. 



Incomecanetook ( Income-can -ttook) . 

 Given by Ross (Advent, 290, 1847) as an 

 Okinagan tribe. 



Indak. A former INIaidu village on the 

 site of Placerville, Eldorado co., Cal. — • 

 Dixon in Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 XVII, pi. xxxviii, 1905. 



IndelcMdntJ ('pine'). An Apache clan 

 or band at San Carlos agency and Ft 

 Apache, Ariz., in 1881 (Bourke in Jour. 

 Am. Folk-lore, iii. 111, 1890); identical 



