SHECATICA AND JACQUES CARTIER 



it was used in building canoes, in pounding 

 the ribs from within alternately, first on one 

 side and then on the other. It goes by the 

 simple name of voter agamashook. But the most 

 interesting record left in this Indian encamp- 

 ment was the framework of a low oval wig- 

 wam formed of twelve poles bent over and 

 tied with withes. It was five by six feet in 

 diameter and four feet high. In the middle 

 was a flat surface of sand surrotuided by a 

 circle of sphagnum moss. Here were chips of 

 stone and bits of charcoal, while outside were 

 numerous large stones which showed the effects 

 of fire. This was a sweat-house where the In- 

 dians took a Turkish bath. It is an almost 

 universal practice among them. The "Hand- 

 book of North American Indians," published 

 by the Smithsonian Institution, says: "The 

 type of the ordinary sweat-house seems to 

 have been everywhere the same. Willow rods 

 or other pliant stems were stuck into the 

 ground and bent and fastened with withes 

 into a hemispherical or oblong framework, 

 which generally was large enough to accom- 

 modate several "persons. A hole was dug con- 

 veniently near the door into which stones, 



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