Beothuk and Micmac . ave a promment place in their locallegends. Their name for the Beothuk isMeywedjidjik,^^ red people (diminu-tive), and, as I have said before, the tribalterm Osayanax is appUed by some both tothe Montagnais and to the Beothuk by thepresent-day Newfoundland Indians. Among the Montagnais, on the otherhand, I have had very poor success in references to the Beothuk. As fardown the St Lawrence as the Moisie riverthe Montagnais seem ignorant of the New-foundland tribes existence. Farther east,nearer the Straits of Belle Isle, perhaps thefew Montagnais there would kno
Beothuk and Micmac . ave a promment place in their locallegends. Their name for the Beothuk isMeywedjidjik,^^ red people (diminu-tive), and, as I have said before, the tribalterm Osayanax is appUed by some both tothe Montagnais and to the Beothuk by thepresent-day Newfoundland Indians. Among the Montagnais, on the otherhand, I have had very poor success in references to the Beothuk. As fardown the St Lawrence as the Moisie riverthe Montagnais seem ignorant of the New-foundland tribes existence. Farther east,nearer the Straits of Belle Isle, perhaps thefew Montagnais there would know some-thing of them, but I have not as yet visitedthem to determine the point. The expectation that the present Micmacinhabitants of Newfoundland might have amore extended knowledge of the supposedlyextinct tribe, an expectation most naturalto the ethnologist, led me to undertake theinvestigation of material culture while inNewfoundland, the results of which formthe basis of this paper. The ethnological INDIAN NOTES.
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