ENIMAGAN, an independent linguistic stock of South American Indians, so called from the Enimagas (Enimas) who were one of its best known tribes. The area occupied by these tribes in south-eastern Bolivia in the northern Chaco extends from the Paraguay river between 22° and 2o° S. lat. northwest ward to about 62° W. long. The more important tribes of the stock to-day are the Lenguas (q.v.) and the Guanas, the latter to be distinguished from the tribe of the same name in the Brazil ian province of Matto Grosso, who are of Arawakan (q.v.) stock. The Enimagan tribes were originally a semi-nomadic, hunting and fishing folk, living in communal reed thatched huts often as much as a hundred and twenty feet long. Woollen or cotton mantles formed their ordinary dress, together with short kilts of the same material. The bow was their main weapon. They were good canoemen, and made a serviceable but rather crude pottery. The tribal chiefs were usually hereditary, but had little power. The dead were buried in shallow graves.
See G. Boggiani, Compendio de etnografia paraguaya moderna (Revista Inst. Paraguay, vol. iii., pp. 141-189) ; L. Kersten, "Die Indianerstamme des Gran Chaco, etc." (Internat. Archiv fiir Ethno graphie, vol. xvii., pp. 1-75) .