Hunting charms of the Montagnais and the Mistassini (1921)
Speck, Frank Gouldsmith, 1881-1950, Heye, George G. (George Gustav), 1874-1957 · New York, Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation · leaf 24
miles roundabout the people known as Mictaciniwi-iuts ( Big Rock people), forming a bandof about 30 families, live and hunt. TheseMistassini are ver\^ interesting; they areconservative, primitive, and live undergreat economic stress, being occasionallyforced to choose between cannibalism… … ^; <U 4L i HUNTING CHARMS 15 and including the Naskapi. One mightsay of them: genus, Naskapi; species,Alistassini. Part of this band was encounteredtrading at Lake St John, whence theyhad come some 400 to 700 miles from theirhunting grounds to trade. The nimaban of the Mistassini are evenmore…
Montagnais Indians · Mistassin Indians · Charms
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