mamaseek

Updated: May 9, 2025

Shaw-na-dith-it when entering into the particulars of the condition of her tribe at the period just referred to, said it consisted of no more than seventy two persons, and whom she thus further described: In the principal encampment, that which Captain Buchan surprised, there were in one mamaseek or wigwam four men, five women and six children in a second mamaseek there were four men, two women and six children in a third mamaseek there were three men, five woman, and seven children in the whole forty-two persons.

Joseph Noad - Lecture on the Aborigines of Newfoundland : Delivered Before the Mechanics' Institute, at St. John's, : Newfoundland, on Monday, 17th January, 1859