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Lamtama. A Nez Perce baud living on 

 White Bird cr., a tributary of Sahnou r., 

 Idaho, so called from the native name of 

 the stream. —Gatschet, MS., 1878, B. A. E. 

 Buffalo Indipns.— Owen in Iiid. Aff. Rep. 1859, 

 424, 1S60. Lamtama.— Gntschet, MS.. 1878, B. A. E. 

 "White Bird Nez Perces. — Ibid, (so called from the 

 name of their ehief ). 



Lana-chaadus {Ld'na tea' ad a^^) ■ A fam- 

 ily of low social rank L>elonging to the 

 Eagle clan of the Haida. Before becom- 

 ing extinct they occujiied, with the Gitin- 

 gidjats, a town on Shingle bay, Queen 

 Charlotte ids., Brit. Col. Some are said 

 to have lived with the Kaiiahl-lanas. — 

 Swanton, Gmt. Haida, 27-4, 1905. 



Lanadagunga (LcViki dd^gAua, 'bad 

 [or common] village ' ) . A former Haida 

 town, owned by the Saki-kegawai, on 

 the coast of Moresby id., s. of Tangle 

 cove, Queen Charlotte ids., Brit. Col. It 

 was so called by the people of Hagi, op- 

 posite, because the Lanadagunga people 

 used to talk against them. — Swanton, 

 Cont. Haida, 277, 1905. 



Lanagahlkehoda {Ldnd'ga fqe'.roda, 

 ' town that the sun does not' shine on ' ). 

 A Haida town on a small island opposite 

 Kaisun, w. coast of Moresby id. , Queen 

 Charlotte ids., Brit. Col. Itwas so named 

 because it faces n. This is a semi-myth- 

 ical town, said to have been occupied by 

 the Kas-lanas. — Swanton, Cont. Haida, 

 280,1905. 



Lanagukunhlin-hadai ( Ld'na gu qA'n- 

 itn xd'da-i, 'resting-the-breast-on-a-town 

 people'). A subdivision of the Chaahl- 

 lanas, a family of the Eagle clan of the 

 Haida. Lanagukunhlin was the name 

 of a chief. — Swanton, Cont. Haida, 276, 

 1905. 



Lanahawa {Ld'na xd'ioa, 'swampy vil- 

 lage'). A former Haida town on the w. 

 coast of Graham id., opposite Hippa id.. 

 Queen Charlotte group, Brit. Col. It was 

 also called Lanaheguns (Ld'-na xe'-g.uis, 

 ' town where there is a noise [of drums] ' ) 

 and Lanahltungua (Ld'-na tt-i-^ngua, 

 'town where there are plenty of feath- 

 ers'). It was occupied by the Skwahla- 

 das and Nasto-kegawai before they moved 

 to Rennell sd., and afterward by the 

 Kianusili. — Swanton, Cont. Haida, 280, 

 1905. 



Lanahawa. A former Haida town on the 

 w. coast of Burnaby id.. Queen Charlotte 

 ids., Brit. Col., s. of the Ninstints town 

 of Ket. — Swanton, Cont. Haida, 278, 

 1905. 



Lanahilduns {Ld'na hi'ldAns, 'moving 

 village'; also called Chahlolnagai, from 

 the name of the inlet on which it was 

 situated). A former Haida town on the 

 s. w. side of Rennell sd., Graham id.. 

 Queen Charlotte group, Brit. Col.; occu- 

 pied by the Nasto-kegawai or the Skwa- 

 hladas familv group. — Swanton, Cont. 

 Haida, 280, 1905. 



Lanaslnagai ( Ld'nas Inagd'-i, ' jjeoples' 

 town ' ) . The name of three distinct Haida 

 towns on Queen Charlotte ids., Brit. Col. 

 One stood on the e. coast of Graham id., 

 s. of C. Ball, and was owned by the 

 Naikun-kegawai ; anothei- belonged to 

 the Kuna-lanas and was on the w. side of 

 Masset inlet where it ])roadens out; the 

 third, which belonged to the Yagunstlan- 

 Inagai, was on Yagun r. — Swanton, Cont. 

 Haida, 280, 2S1, 1905. 



Lanaungsuls ( Ld'na ^A'nsAls, 'town 

 [that] hides itself). A Haida town on 

 Masset inlet. Queen Charlotte ids., Brit. 

 Col., belonging to the Aovaku-lnagai. — 

 Swanton, Cont. Haida, 281, 1905. 



Lances. As an implement of the chase 

 or of war the lance had a wide distribu- 

 tion among the ancient and the modern 

 tribes of the United States. Though none 

 of the objects of chipped stone called 

 lance-heads that have been found in num- 

 bers on widely separated archeological 

 sites are attached to shafts, there is reason 

 to believe that many of the leaf-shaped 

 blades were lance-heads. The only sur- 

 vivals of the use of the an- 

 cient lance are found among 

 the Hupa of California and 

 the western Eskimo, but 

 earlier writers have men- 

 tioned their existence among 

 various tribes. Lances for 

 the chase were used occa- 

 sionally in war by the Eski- 

 mo, but the Plains Indians, 

 whenever possible, used two 

 distinct varieties for war 

 and for hunting, the hunting 

 lance blade being shorter 

 and heavier. The lance 

 appears to have originated through the 

 need of striking animals from some dis- 

 tance in order to escape personal danger 

 and to produce surer results than were 

 _ possible with a stone knife or other im- 

 plement used at close ciuarters. The 

 efficiency and range of the lance when 

 thrown from the hand was increased by 

 the throwing stick (tj-v.), and the original 

 lance or spear developed into a number 

 of varieties under the influences of envi- 

 ronment, the habits of animals, accultu- 

 ration, etc. The greatest number of 

 forms sprang up among the Eskimo, 

 whose environment was characterized by 

 a great variety and alternation of animal 

 life, while in most other regions a simple 

 lance was perpetuated. 



The Plains tribes, as a rule, living in a 

 region conducive to warfare and aggression 

 through its lack of physical boundaries, 

 made more use of the lance in war than 

 did coast, woodland, desert, or mountain 

 tribes. Since the general occupancy of 

 the plains appears to have been coincident 

 with the introduction of the horse, the 



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