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ILLILOUETTE CREEK, FALL | [Yosemite] |
“This cañon is called by Professor J. D. Whitney the ‘Illilouette,’ a supposed Indian name; but I have never questioned a single Indian that knew anything whatever of such a word; while every one, without an exception, knows this cañon either by Too-lool-a-we-ack or Too-lool-we-ack; the meaning of which, as nearly as their ideas can be comprehended and interpreted, is the place beyond which was the great rendezvous of the Yo Semite Indians for hunting deer.” (Hutchings: In the Heart of the Sierras, 1886, p. 440.)
“Tu-tu'lu-wi-sak, Tu-tul'wi-ak, the southern wall of South Cañon.” (Powers: Tribes of California, in Contributions to North American Ethnology, III, 1877, p. 364.)
“The strictly literal translation of this name [Too-lool-lo-we-ack] would be inadmissible. . . . The name ‘Illeuette’ [or ‘Illiluette’] is not Indian, and is, therefore, meaningless and absurd.” (Bunnell: Discovery of the Yosemite, 1880, pp. 202-203.)
[Editor’s note: Bunnell, in true discreet Victorian form, translated the meaning of Too-lool-lo-we-ack to Greek, which translated to English means “urinating.”—dea. ]
INDIAN CAÑON | [Yosemite] |
“The shafts of their arrows are made of reeds, and from different species of wood, but the choicest are made of what is called Indian arrow-wood (Le-Hamite). This wood is found only in dark ravines and deep rocky cañons in the mountains, as it seems to require dampness and shade. Its scarcity makes the Young shoots of a proper growth a very valuable article of barter between the mountain tribes and those of the valleys and plains. A locality in the Yosemite Valley once famous for its supply of this arrow-wood, was the ravine called by the Yosemites ‘Le-Hamite’ (as we might say ‘the oaks,’ or ‘the Pines’), but which is now designated as ‘Indian Cañon.’” (Bunnell: Discovery of the Yosemite, 1880, p. 131.)
INFANT BUTTES | [Mount Goddard] |
INYO COUNTY |
Inyo County, created March 22, 1866; increased by including part of Mono County, 1870; increased to the southeast, 1872. (Coy: California County Boundaries, 1923, pp. 114-115.)
INYO NATIONAL FOREST |
IRELAND LAKE, CREEK | [Mount Lyell] |
Born in Indiana, 1867; M.D., Detroit College of Medicine, 1890; assistant surgeon, U. S. Army, 1891; major, Medical Corps, 1903; lieutenant-colonel, 1911; colonel, 1917; major-general (surgeon-general, A.E.F.), August, 1918 surgeon-general, U. S. Army, since October, 1918.
IRVINE, MOUNT (13,790) | [Mount Whitney] |
ISBERG PASS, PEAK | [Mount Lyell] |
ITALY, LAKE | [Mount Goddard] |
IZAAK WALTON, MOUNT (11,900) | [Mount Goddard] |
Name proposed in 1919 by Francis P. Farquhar for the peak that stands at the head of Fish Creek Cañon. (S.C.B., 1920, XI:1, p. 46; see illustration in Appalachia, November, 1920, XV:1, plate XIV.)
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