Beothuk and Micmac . above sources, theresidual material may possibly deserve to beclassed as the result of borrowing throughcontact with the Beothuk. If one is in-clined to object strenuously to such a claim,let us recall the fact that many of the Mic-mac families among the present-day nativesof Newfoundland are of Montagnais de-scent. If one attempts to deny categoricallythat culture survivals from the Beothuk arenot to be traced through the Micmac, onaccount of former hostility, then it cannotbe denied on the same ground that influencecould have come down through the Mon-tagnais strain in t
Beothuk and Micmac . above sources, theresidual material may possibly deserve to beclassed as the result of borrowing throughcontact with the Beothuk. If one is in-clined to object strenuously to such a claim,let us recall the fact that many of the Mic-mac families among the present-day nativesof Newfoundland are of Montagnais de-scent. If one attempts to deny categoricallythat culture survivals from the Beothuk arenot to be traced through the Micmac, onaccount of former hostility, then it cannotbe denied on the same ground that influencecould have come down through the Mon-tagnais strain in the present population,whose ancestors were known to be friendlywith the Beothuk. COMPARATIVE ETHNOLOGICAL NOTES One of the distinctive features of economiclife listed for the Beothuk is a marked pe-culiarity in the construction of thebirch-barkwigwam. The excavation of a pit a foot orso below the level of the ground seems tohave been a general feature of the Beothukwigwam. This contrasts with the Micmac INDIAN NOTES.
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