Beothuk and Micmac . TOBACCO-POUCHES OF THE BADGERS BROOK BAND OF MICMAC a, Of red tanned cariijou-skiii, with string of spun caribou wool; width, 41 in. b. Of muskrat-skin BEOTHUK ETHNOLOGY 45 ]\Ioreover, the isolated fact that the Beo-thuk used the inner bark of Pinus balsanii-fera for food^^ is, like many other customs,not an exclusive one, because the Mon-tagnais do the same with the iimer rindof canoe birch when pressed by famine. The accompanying tabulated ethnologi-cal summary has been prepared for the con-venience of the reader. It reveals, on thebasis of what is known of Beothuk ethno
Beothuk and Micmac . TOBACCO-POUCHES OF THE BADGERS BROOK BAND OF MICMAC a, Of red tanned cariijou-skiii, with string of spun caribou wool; width, 41 in. b. Of muskrat-skin BEOTHUK ETHNOLOGY 45 ]\Ioreover, the isolated fact that the Beo-thuk used the inner bark of Pinus balsanii-fera for food^^ is, like many other customs,not an exclusive one, because the Mon-tagnais do the same with the iimer rindof canoe birch when pressed by famine. The accompanying tabulated ethnologi-cal summary has been prepared for the con-venience of the reader. It reveals, on thebasis of what is known of Beothuk ethnol-og\, the degree of resemblance of the Beo-thuk to the Micmac-Montagnais of New-foundland, and that of these two peoplesindividually to the Montagnais north of theSt Lawrence and to the IMicmac and theWabanaki tribes south of that stream. Atabulation of this nature is of course valu-able only to a limited extent, because wecannot rely on the significance of anythingnegative owing to the incompleteness ofour knowledg
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