« Although the hunting of bears was surrounded with more ritual than that of any other animal, there were ritual responsibilities toward others as well. » anstone, James W. "The Speck Collection of Montagnais Material Culture from the Lower St. Lawrence Drainage, Quebec." Fieldiana. Anthropology. New Series, No. 5 (October 29, 1982), p.20. « The loon was an important bird of omen to the hunter and his cries were considered to be an indication of the coming direction and force of the wind (Speck, 1935, p. 126). To placate slain birds, the loon's skull, of which there is one in the collection, was placed in a bush with the mandible set perpendicularly in the nasal opening (fig. 35). » Vanstone, James W. "The Speck Collection of Montagnais Material Culture from the Lower St. Lawrence Drainage, Quebec." Fieldiana. Anthropology. New Series, No. 5 (October 29, 1982), p.20, fig 35 (p.63).

« The Speck collection contains nine tobacco pouches. Two of these are of the roll-up variety, consisting of two rectangular pieces of skin, one much longer than the other, sewn together on three sides. The larger piece serves as a flap when the pouch is rolled. One of these pouches is made from the skin of a moose leg with the hair on. It is tied with a narrow moose skin strap at the end of which is a fastener-pipe cleaner made from a loon's beak (fig. 22b). » Vanstone, James W. "The Speck Collection of Montagnais Material Culture from the Lower St. Lawrence Drainage, Quebec." Fieldiana. Anthropology. New Series, No. 5 (October 29, 1982), p.12, fig 22b (p.50).