Inacayal

Inacayal (c. 1835 – 1888, also transcribed as Ynacayal or Inakayal) was a cacique (chief) of the Tehuelche people in Patagonia, Argentina who led a resistance against government.

His hospitality to Francisco Moreno during the explorer's 1880 expedition to Patagonia was recalled after his surrender, which was covered by the press.

After his death in 1888, anthropologists displayed the indigenous chief's brain and skeleton as an exhibit in the anthropological museum in Buenos Aires.

[1] His remains were finally returned to his people in 1994 for reinterment in the Comunidad Tehuelche Mapuche of Chubut Province.

[2] An Eocene damselfly species, Inacayalestes aikunhuapi, found in Nahuel Huapi National Park, Argentina was named after him in 2015.