Hunting Charms of the Montagnais and the Mistassini (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Hunting Charms of the Montagnais and the Mistassini The term nimában seems to signify "dance-cord, " from nimi-, "dance, " and the common Algonkian stem -aban, denoting "string, " "length of something pliable, " which occurs in cognitive forms throughout eastern dialects: compare, for example, Penobscot -Abi (wo'bA'bi, "wampum, " agamA'bi, "snowshoe string, " maksAnA'bi, "moccasin string, " wuskwA'bi, "carrying strap"), and Malecite -a'p', Micmac -a'be. Most of these tribes know the term nimában as a pack-strap, but its symbolic aspect is not emphasized as among the northern St Lawrence divisions of the group, so far as is now known. Spread over an extremely wide range of country, the various bands of the sub- Arctic, semi-maritime hunters known in literature as the Montagnais ("mountaineers"), exhibit considerable variation in dialect and custom. From Hamilton river in eastern Labrador, following the coast of the Gulf of St Lawrence westward to the Saguenay, the Montagnais are seafarers and forest nomads according to season and fancy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.