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The IroquoisBook 1945 • Speck, Frank Gouldsmith
Iroquois • North America > Eastern Woodlands
This booklet consists of a summary of Iroquois technology and material culture. The text was conceived as a vehicle for numerous photographs of specimens from the ethnological collections of t...Montagnais-Naskapi bands and early Eskimo distribution in the Labrador peninsulaarticle 1931 • Speck, Frank Gouldsmith
Innu • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
This document consists mainly of a listing of the various bands of the Montagnais-Naskapi, with a brief description of each, covering generally the territorial range of the bands, their type o...Montagnais art in birch-bark, a circumpolar traitarticle 1937 • Speck, Frank Gouldsmith
Innu • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
Concentrating on the Montagnais bands at Lake St. John and Escoumains with some material from the Mistassini, Speck describes the ornamentation of birch bark containers. His purpose, typical o...Montagnais-Naskapi bands and family hunting districts of the central and southeastern Labrador peninsulaarticle 1942 • Speck, Frank Gouldsmith & Eisley, Loren C.
Innu • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
The authors develop the theory that the family ownership of hunting territories of the Montagnais-Naskapi bands is the result of the adjustment of these people to the hunting of beavers in the...