. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Tefes de Boule The Tetes de Boule, particularly the western bands, were skilled canoe builders and had long been em- ployed by the Hudson's Bay Company in the con- struction of large fur-trade canoes. Apparently made up of bands of Indians inhabiting lower Quebec, in the basin of the St. Maurice River and on the Height of Land, these bands had come down to the lower Ottawa River to trade with the local Algonkin tribe there in early times. They were known to the Algonkins, who had had some contact with civili- zation, as "wild
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Tefes de Boule The Tetes de Boule, particularly the western bands, were skilled canoe builders and had long been em- ployed by the Hudson's Bay Company in the con- struction of large fur-trade canoes. Apparently made up of bands of Indians inhabiting lower Quebec, in the basin of the St. Maurice River and on the Height of Land, these bands had come down to the lower Ottawa River to trade with the local Algonkin tribe there in early times. They were known to the Algonkins, who had had some contact with civili- zation, as "wild ; They also came into close trading relations with the French colonists, as the Ottawa River was the early French canoe route between Montreal and Lake Superior. Because they cut their hair short, unlike the other Indians, these northern bands were nicknamed "Bull Heads," or "Round Heads," by the French traders, and the tribesmen soon came to accept this rather than their own designation of "White Fish People" as the tribal name. In more recent times, the name has been applied to groups of Indians living in western Quebec Province, near Lake Barriere and Grand Lake Vic- toria, but these do not consider themselves related to the St. Maurice bands. It seems apparent that the canoe models of all these groups had been altered as a result of long contact with other tribal groups. Although the St. Maurice and the western bands were apparently not of the same tribal stock, their relations with the Algonkin may have brought about the use of a standard model by all. The Tetes de Boule lived in an area where very superior materials for birch-bark canoe construction were plentiful. This, with the need for canoes im- posed by the numerous waterways and the demand for canoes from white traders, made many of the tribesmen expert builders. Their small canoes, rang- ing from the 8- to 12-foot hunter's canoes to the 14- to 16-foot family canoes, were very simila
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