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mamateek
[< Beothuk, i.e., the language of the Red Indians]
Nfld, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
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See: Red Indian(def. 1)
Quotations
1828
Here remains one of their [Beothuk] villages, where the vestiges of eight or ten winter mamateeks, or wigwams, each intended to contain six to eighteen or twenty people, are distinctly seen close together.
1907
On the lakes near New Bay were the remains of winter mamateeks or wigwams. . . .
1962
In summer they frequented the coasts and in winter they retired to their wigwams in the interior. These they called "mamateeks." Some of them were circular in shape while others were rectangular.