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Naskapi lawarticle 1947 • Lips, Julius
Innu • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
This study, by a social anthropologist, is concerned primarily with the legal norms held by the Naskapi and their application. Special emphasis is given to the norms surrounding property, and valuable information from over 100 years ago has been draw...Notes on Montagnais-Naskapi economy (Lake St. John and Lake Mistassini Bands)article 1947 • Lips, Julius
Innu • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
This document is a generalized description of the economy of the Montagnais-Naskapi with emphasis on the material culture necessary to their way of life. Included are descriptions of diet, hunting and fishing gear, utensils, houses, leather-working a...Trap systems among the Montagnais-Naskapi Indians of Labrador peninsulaBook 1936 • Lips, Julius
Innu • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
This source is largely a description of Montagnais-Naskapi hunting traps and their manufacture. Most of the trapping techniques had given way to the use of steel traps when the author did his field work, but older informants were still able to constr...Public opinion and mutual assistance among the Montagnais-Naskapiarticle 1937 • Lips, Julius
Innu • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
Although the author surrounds his paper with a few theoretical notes about law and social pressures to conformity, his major interest appears to be a discussion of mutual assistance. In particular, over half the article is devoted to illustrating sig...