“Deer”: Collinson, 1889: 153 (Banks Island; weight); 166, 171,
173-175, 181, 186, 197, 209, 220, 237, 264, 272-274 (Victoria
Island); 200, 203, 229 (Prince of Wales Strait); 235 (Dolphin
and Union Strait); 243, 247, 281, 283 (Cambridge Bay); 244
(large herds waiting to cross Dease Strait, October; trailed by
wolves); 277 (stone monuments of Eskimos for deflecting deer,
Dease Strait); 290 (large numbers migrating in autumn from
Victoria Island to mainland).
“Reindeer”: MacFarlane, 1890: 32-34 (Anderson River; Eskimos
hunting reindeer there; their clothing in part of deerskin); 38
(Eskimo fish nets of deer sinew); 38, 43, 47 (numerous on
Anderson River).
“Barren Ground caribou”: Pike, 1917 (1892): 43, 64 (near Lake
Mackay); 44-46 (Lake Camsell); 48 (Arctic islands to s. part of
Hudson Bay and vicinity of Fort Smith, W. to Mackenzie River;
rutting season in October); 48-49 (migration); 49 (segregation
of sexes; antler change); 50 (migration deflected by burning of
country; thousands [Barren Ground or Woodland species?] at York
Factory, about 1888-1890; depletion by hunting); 51-55 (Indian
methods of hunting; economic uses); 51-52, 90 (unwariness);
56-58 (relations to Eskimos, wolves, and wolverines); 58-59
(parasitic flies); 59-60 (Indian superstition); 67, 72
(Coppermine River above Lac de Gras); 76 (near Lake Mackay; Lake
Camsell); 81-82 (S. of Lake Mackay; curing of meat and hides);
89-91 (la foule); 90 (rutting season over and bucks too strong
to eat, late October); 101 (mostly passed into the woods by
November 11); 108 (Lake Mackay); 134 (near Lac de Mort); 148
(near Gros Cap, Great Slave Lake, January); 171, 174, 177 (N. of
Great Slave Lake); 174 (bucks leaving woods in early June); 182
(Lake Aylmer); 186, 199 (Back’s River, July); 201, 204 (near
Lake Beechey; females with young, late July); 209 (females and
young in great numbers, upper Back’s River); 217 (Clinton-Colden
Lake, early August); 220 (thousands at Ptarmigan Lake, August);
221 (Artillery Lake); 224, 227 (Pike’s Portage).
_Rangifer Groenlandicus_ Linn.: J. B. Tyrrell, 1892: 128 (use in
economy of northern Indians; weight; antler shedding; pelage
change; infestation with warbles); 129 (wintering between
Churchill River and Lake Athabaska; collecting on frozen lakes);
130 (Indian hunters killing 100-400 apiece; Fond du Lac, Lake
Athabaska, on a main migratory path).
_Rangifer Groenlandica_ Linn.: Dowling, 1893: 89 (Bear Head Lake
[N. of Great Slave Lake]); 92 (near Lake Mackay, June 22); 103
(a favorite crossing on Great Fish River near Musk-ox Lake); 107
(Pike’s expedition living mainly on caribou; migrations; does
fawning near the sea-coast, bucks following behind; horns in
velvet prized as food by Indians).
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