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Beothuk and Micmac . < —. BEOTHUK SITES 19 collection figured in my study is now in theVictoria INIuseum, Ottawa, and the manu-script was prepared originally for the An-thropological Survey of Canada. Thanksare due to the Director and to Dr. EdwardSapir for the photographs of the collectionand for permission to use the material. SITES OF BEOTHUK OCCUPANCY In the neighborhood of Red Indian lakeand the River of Exploits the signs of Beo-thuk occupancy are both numerous and wellpreserved. Several authors^^ have writtenof the caribou fences which were con-structed to force the caribou to cross
Beothuk and Micmac . < —. BEOTHUK SITES 19 collection figured in my study is now in theVictoria INIuseum, Ottawa, and the manu-script was prepared originally for the An-thropological Survey of Canada. Thanksare due to the Director and to Dr. EdwardSapir for the photographs of the collectionand for permission to use the material. SITES OF BEOTHUK OCCUPANCY In the neighborhood of Red Indian lakeand the River of Exploits the signs of Beo-thuk occupancy are both numerous and wellpreserved. Several authors^^ have writtenof the caribou fences which were con-structed to force the caribou to cross a riveror a lake at certain places accessible to thenatives, where they could be shot andspeared.^* Recent forest fires have oblit-erated these so-called fences, but in afew places near the shore, where, on accountof the moisture, the fires have not burnedto the waters edge, some few miles belowthe new dam on Exploits river at its junctionwith Red Indian lake, are to be seen thetrunks of trees felled to form a line barrier A
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