_Cervus tarandus_ Linn.: Richardson, in Back, 1836: 498 (Barren
Grounds; migration; food); 499 (utilization by Indians and
Eskimos; antlers).
“Reindeer” or “deer”: Simpson, 1843: 76 (destruction in 1831 of
a countless herd [of Woodland or Barren Ground species?]
crossing Hayes River in summer); 196, 198 (Great Bear Lake,
September); 206, 226, 232, 242, 247, 249, 250 (between Great
Bear Lake and Coppermine River); 207 (solicitude of a buck for a
wounded doe); 208 (antlers worn by Indian hunter as a decoy);
232 (deer driven over a cliff by wolves); 233 (numerous near
Dease River, early April); 255, 256, 261, 264 (lower Coppermine
River, June); 266, 271, 273 (Coppermine River to Cape Barrow,
July); 277 (does apparently crossing the ice to islands for
fawning); 278, 279 (Cape Barrow to Bathurst Inlet); 281 (first
does with fawns seen, August 3); 284 (Bathurst Inlet); 295, 297,
301 (E. of Cape Franklin, migrating S., late August); 309, 310
(lower Coppermine River, September; drowned in rapids); 312
(deer snares, Dease River); 320-321 (retiring in winter to
Coppermine River and country south of Great Bear Lake); 328
(numerous between Great Bear Lake and Mackenzie River in
winter); 342 (between Great Bear Lake and Coppermine River,
June); 347 (Eskimos hunting on Richardson River, summer); 352
(lower Coppermine River); 355 (Eskimos at Cape Barrow gone
inland to hunt deer, July); 361 (Ellice River, July 31); 365,
367 (Adelaide Peninsula); 370, 374 (Elliot Bay); 379 (King
William Island); 381 (does and fawns near Ogden Bay, early
September); 382 (Melbourne Island); 386 (Victoria Island, early
September); 391 (great numbers, lower Coppermine River,
September 20).
“Rein-deer”: J. McLean, 1932 (1849): 195 (immense herds
[Woodland or Barren Ground sp.?] in York Factory region prior to
1837; their disappearance reducing Indians to want); 359
(Yellowknife Indians reported to have the art of taming fawns,
which follow them like dogs till killed and utilized).
“Deer” or “rein-deer”: Rae, 1850: 26, 27 (Rankin’s Inlet); 27
(Eskimos spearing deer while crossing Chesterfield Inlet); 28
(Cape Fullerton); 31, 32 (near Whale Point); 35, 39 (Eskimo
clothing of caribou skin, Repulse Bay); 40, 64, 65, 73, 74, 76,
80, 84, 91, 92, 133, 134, 166, 169, 177 (Repulse Bay); 44 (stone
monuments erected by Eskimos to deflect deer); 44, 68, 99 (Rae
Isthmus); 52, 54, 55, 130, 132, 145, 160, 161 (Committee Bay);
79 (use by Eskimos for clothing and food); 93 (migrating N.,
Repulse Bay, early March); 116 (Pelly Bay); 149, 151 (Melville
Peninsula); 150 (use of stomach contents as food); 170 (Eskimo
drum of caribou skin); 184, 186 (near Chesterfield Inlet).
“Deer”: Osborn, 1852: 74 (near Pond Inlet).
“Deer”: Rae, 1852a: 75 (Victoria Island, near Richardson
Islands); 79 (many crossing Dolphin and Union Straits to
Victoria Island).
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