THE MONTAGNAIS INDIANS 
or folded about the neck. The infant was bound 
up as all proper Indian papooses are, with a 
criss-cross of lacings over an abundance of 
wrappings, the whole forming a bundle that 
could as easily be handled, and that made as 
little fuss as a small bag of flour. 
The common posture taken by these Indians 
was a kneeling one, with the body resting on 
the heels as shown in several of the photographs, 
a position very difficult to maintain for any 
length of time by a white man. This is the 
same posture commonly assumed by the Jap- 
anese as shown in the familiar pictures of these 
people grouped about tea-trays. According to 
Professor Okakura Yoshisaburo of Tokio, the 
Japanese and Koreans alone of Asiatic peoples 
habitually adopt this posture, while the Chinese 
sit as do the Europeans. 
The wigwams of this people that I saw at 
various places along the coast were of three 
sorts: the ordinary cotton wall-tent of the 
white man, the wigwam made of straight 
slender poles set in a circle and leaning in to 
the centre, and the lodge of birch sticks stuck 
in the ground in a circle or oval, and bent so 
as to form a low rounded or oval structure, 
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