“Caribou”: J. M. Bell, 1901a: 16 (vast herds near Dismal Lake;
use by Eskimos).
“Caribou”: J. M. Bell, 1901b: 252 (furnishing food and
clothing for Hare Indians, Great Bear Lake); 255 (use by Eskimos
near Coppermine River; vast herds); 258 (plentiful, but
decreasing, S. of Great Bear Lake; wanton killing by Indian and
Eskimos).
“Caribou”: Boas, 1901: 52, 54 (Eskimo garments of caribou skin,
Cumberland Sound); 81 (Eskimos hunting caribou with harpoons);
102, 107 (Eskimo clothing of caribou skin, w. coast of Hudson
Bay); 150 (albino caribou).--1907: 465 (Eskimos W. of Hudson Bay
dependent on caribou); 474 (caribou plentiful on Southampton
Island and larger than on mainland); 493 (caribou-hunting at
Pond’s Inlet); 501 (taboo against killing albino caribou, W. of
Hudson Bay).
[_Rangifer_] _arcticus_ (Rich.): Elliot, 1901: 37 (“Barren
grounds of Arctic America, north of the tree limit, to the
shores and islands of the Arctic Ocean”; diagnosis).
_Rangifer tarandus arcticus_ . . . (part): Lydekker, 1901: 38-40
(description).
“Reindeer and caribou (Rangifer caribou)”: W. J. McLean, 1901: 5
(Great Slave Lake, annual arrival on August 12; hunting and
utilization by Indians); 6 (antler growth and change; migration;
trails; swimming).
_Rangifer tarandus_ . . . (part): Beddard, 1902: 298
(“circumpolar”).
_Rangifer arcticus_ . . .: Elliot, 1902: 259 (“in 1856 they
migrated to latitude 47° in great numbers to Lake Huron” [???]);
260, 274-275 (migrations); 273 (Arctic regions, W. to Coppermine
and Mackenzie Rivers); 276 (food; fat); 276-277 (utilization by
Indians and Eskimos); 277-279 (native hunting methods); 279-280
(antlers shed by old bucks in December and January, carried by
young bucks till spring, and by does till birth of fawns);
281-282, 286-287 (description).
_Rangifer arcticus_ (Richardson): Preble, 1902: 41 (50 and 25
miles S. of Eskimo Point; pursued by wolves; attacks of
insects); 42 (flashing a white throat-patch; summation of
previous records; ranging S. to Churchill River and Reindeer
Lake); 42-43 (pelage described).
“Caribou”: J. W. Tyrrell, 1924 (1902): 15 (Fort Reliance, Great
Slave Lake); 17 (Pike’s Portage); 18-20 (Artillery Lake); 26
(nearly all gone farther N., only stragglers remaining along
Hanbury River, early July); 27-28 (numerous tracks but few
animals, middle Thelon River, early July; hundreds killed by
spring ice or Eskimos); 31 (large band moving S., Thelon River,
July 23); 33-35 (between Thelon River and Artillery Lake); 37
(great bands of caribou the chief food supply in Thelon River
region).
_Rangifer articus_ . . . (part): Grant, 1903: 186 (Barren
Grounds W. of Hudson Bay, W. to Mackenzie River, S. in winter to
Churchill River and Reindeer Lake; threatened with extinction by
whalers); 189 (Salisbury Island).
“Deer”: Hanbury, 1903: 185 (between Lake Pelly and Arctic coast,
May).
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