CANICHANAN, a linguistic stock of South American In dians, consisting of a single tribe, the Canichanas. There is doubt as to. the validity of the stock. The Canichanas lived in northern Bolivia on the Machupo and Mamore rivers between 13° and S. Latitude. The remnants are still to be found at the mis sions of San Pedro and Trinidad. They were originally a war like people, raiding and attacking their more peaceable Arawakan neighbours. They lived in entrenched villages and subsisted mainly on the products of fishing and hunting. They had the reputation of being cannibalistic. In general their culture re sembled that of the nomadic tribes of the Chaco, rather than their sedentary agricultural neighbours.
See A. D'Oribgny, L'Homme Americain (Paris, 2839).