“Reindeer” or “deer”: Franklin, 1823: 215-227, 285 (Yellowknife
River region); 230-232, 239-240, 245, 248, 268-271, 285, 297,
299, 309, 315-320, 438-440, 459-462, 480-488 (Winter Lake
region); 233, 324-325, 418-426, 446-447 (Point Lake region); 240
(back fat; rutting season); 240-241 (antler and pelage change);
241 (larvae of warble and nostril flies); 241-242 (migration);
242 (fawning; food; weight; predation by wolves); 243-244
(Indian hunting methods); 327, 328, 333, 337, 344 (Coppermine
River region); 327 (pursuit by a wolf); 344 (driven by wolves
over a precipice); 363-374 (coast of Coronation Gulf); 379-395
(Bathurst Inlet region); 397-400 (Hood River region); 404-413
(Contwoyto Lake region); 478 (Marten Lake); 486, 487 (pursuit
and killing by wolves, Winter Lake region).
_Cervus Tarandas_. . .: Sabine, in Franklin, 1823: 665, 667
(Barren Grounds, migrating in summer to Arctic islands).
“Deer” or “reindeer”: Lyon, 1824: 48, 58-60 (Frozen Strait); 54
(Repulse Bay); 64-67 (Gore Bay; too fleet for a greyhound); 70,
74, 76, 77, 80, 82 (Lyon Inlet and vicinity); 119, 123, 130,
144, 203, 212 (Winter Island; food of Eskimos; bows made of
antlers; use of sinews; deerskin clothing); 192-198, 217, 221,
223, 229, 238, 241, 282-283, 311-317 (Melville Peninsula, E.
coast; deerskin clothing of Eskimos); 257, 269-270 (near Fury
and Hecla Strait; buck shedding velvet, September 4); 324, 327
(Eskimo use of antlers in sledges and bows); 336 (Melville
Peninsula, in summer; voice; inquisitiveness); 336-337 (Eskimo
hunting with bow and spearing in water); 415, 419-423, 430, 436
(near Igloolik, Melville Peninsula, in June).
“Deer” or “reindeer”: Parry, 1824: 42 (Southampton Island); 52,
61, 69, 71, 72, 83, 84, 92, 101, 106-108, 214, 230, 235, 236,
245, 254, 265 (s. Melville Peninsula and vicinity); 289, 305,
308, 324, 329, 332, 339, 343, 434, 438, 439, 441, 446, 447,
453-460 (Fury and Hecla Strait); 289 (stomach contents eaten by
Eskimos); 305 (estimated weight 220 lb.); 380 (venison supplied
by Eskimos); 403 (15 deer killed by an Eskimo during a summer);
494-497 (deerskin clothing of Eskimos, Melville Peninsula); 505
(their dependence on reindeer for food); 508 (Eskimo spear for
killing deer in water); 512 (Eskimo methods of hunting deer);
513 (numerous, Cockburn Land); 537 (Eskimo use of skins and
sinew).
_Cervus tarandus_ L.: Richardson, “1825” (= 1827?): 326 (native
names); 327-328 (antler growth and change); 328 (rutting season
and strong-tasting meat, about beginning of October; warble
flies); 328-329 (migrations, in relation to attacks of parasitic
flies and to food; does precede on northward migration); 329
(fawns born in May and June; stragglers in every part of the
country at all seasons); 330 (utilization of Caribou--including
fly larvae--as food by natives; nostril flies); 331 (marrow used
as hair-dressing by native women).
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