IACANDONES, an Indian tribe belonging to the Maya Quiche stock. They occupy the tributary streams west of the Usumacintla river in Chiapas, Mexico. Their tongue is closely re lated to the Maya of Yucatan. Living in scattered family groups, their total number to-day is only a few hundred. Formerly, how ever, they were numerous and opposed the Spaniards so resolutely, especially during the i 7th century, that they were never com pletely subdued. Their culture at present is primitive but they show survivals of higher phases inherited from pre-Columbian times.
See A. M. Tozzer, A Comparative Study of the Mayas and Iacan- dones (i907)•