_Rangifer tarandus_ (Linn.): Russell, 1898: 88 (great numbers
passing Fort Rae for 14 days in 1877); 89 (N. of Fort Rae); 90
(leaping into air at start); 91 (use of flesh by Dog Ribs;
albino specimen); 111, 113, 119 (upper Coppermine River region,
abundant in March); 134 (caribou-skin clothing worn formerly by
Loucheux at Fort McPherson); 139 (on Mackenzie Delta in 1850);
168 (caribou-skin lodge at Fort Rae); 169-172 (caribou-skin
clothing among Dog Ribs); 176 (caribou-skin drum at Fort Rae;
use of sinew); 178 (caribou-skin gun cases among Indians);
187-189 (caribou-skin clothing among Eskimos); 225 (antler
change); 226 (albino; food; distribution and migrations); 227
(abundant along coast between Mackenzie River and Cape Bathurst,
1894; deer snares; spearing; hunting); 228-229 (utilization by
Eskimos and Indians; parasitic flies).
“Barren Ground Caribou,” “deer,” or “reindeer”: J. W. Tyrrell,
1908 (1898): 77-78 (Barlow Lake; Carey Lake, thousands, late
July); 79 (weight 100-400 lb.; molt); 79-80 (antler change); 80
(relation of prongs to age; migration; food; reproduction);
80-81 (utilization of meat, skins, and sinew); 87-88 (Dubawnt
Lake); 97 (lower Dubawnt River); 98 (Wharton Lake); 123-138
(utilization by Eskimos); 139-141 (hunting by Eskimos); 174-177
(near Dawson Inlet); 206-207 (E. of Churchill River); 215 (mouth
of Nelson River [Woodland or Barren Ground species?]); 241
(importance to natives).
“Caribou” or “reindeer”: Jones, 1899: 328-332, 342-343, 353-355
(Fort Reliance and vicinity); 329 (weight); 338, 340, 365, 394
(Artillery Lake and vicinity); 342 (Indian corral or trap); 359
(noonday rest of caribou); 368 (immense band, Clinton-Colden
Lake, early March); 374 (tens of thousands of does daily,
Clinton-Colden Lake, moving N., March); 374-375 (relations to
wolves); 381 (abundant, near mouth of Dubawnt River, March); 390
(near lower Dubawnt River); 411 (suffering from insects); 429
(spearing by Indians).
“Deer”: Lofthouse, 1899: 275 (mouth of Tha-anne River, early
July).
“Caribou or deer”: Hanbury, 1900: 64 (Eskimos bringing venison
to Churchill and reporting deer numerous along the coast); 65
(importance of deer in northern travel; scarce along west coast
of Hudson Bay in May and early June); 66-67 (very scarce at
Baker Lake in June, plentiful in July); 67 (flesh unpalatable in
fly-time; large bands at Aberdeen Lake, August); 69 (absent in
winter on lower Thelon River; very scarce on Hanbury River,
August); 71 (plentiful, Artillery Lake to Great Slave Lake,
September).
_Rangifer arcticus_ (Richardson) (part): A. J. Stone, 1900: 50
(distribution; migration); 51 (Richards Island); 53 (antlers;
does and fawns moving N. in May, Franklin Bay; sprawling posture
of hind leg); 57 (disastrous results of whalers’ demands for
meat; Darnley Bay; Bathurst Isthmus).
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