“Caribou” or “deer”: Hanbury, 1904: 8 (Marble Island and
Chesterfield Inlet, June); 9 (Baker Lake, July); 10 (large bands
migrating S., Aberdeen Lake, early August); 14 (scarce, Hanbury
River); 16 (plentiful, Lockhart River); 30 (Pike’s Portage, late
July); 31 (Artillery Lake); 32 (Abbott Lake; scourged by warble
flies); 34 (large bands migrating S., Hanbury River, late July);
41 (hunted by Eskimos near Thelon-Dubawnt junction); 43-44, 47
(Schultz Lake); 43 (voice; spearing by Eskimos); 48 (scarce,
Baker Lake, early September); 49 (Chesterfield Inlet); 51
(plentiful near Marble Island, mid-September); 58 (leaving the
coast, late September); 67 (dressing of skins by Eskimos); 70,
72 (killed by Eskimos, Baker Lake); 73 (thousands at Baker Lake;
fierce combats between old bucks in October rutting season); 75
(deerskin roof of igloo); 82 (deerskin clothing of Eskimos); 84,
88-90 (NW. of Baker Lake, November); 85 (unwariness); 89
(pursuit by wolves); 93 (bucks remaining all winter on Back’s
River); 95 (numerous, Chesterfield Inlet; in December the old
bucks had dropped their antlers); 100 (near Depot Island);
104-107 (Chesterfield Inlet region); 108 (does migrating N. in
April); 111 (plentiful, Baker Lake, March); 113 (many, Schultz
Lake, March); 114-115, 123 (snow pitfalls made by Eskimos); 115,
116 (numerous, Aberdeen Lake, March); 116 (antlers of bucks
commencing to grow); 118 (NW. of Aberdeen Lake; buck weighing
280 lb.); 119 (Buchanan River); 120 (migration; many remaining
on Barrens all winter; deer meat essential to Eskimos on Back’s
River); 121 (frequent famine among Indians and Eskimos; caribou
formerly migrating S. and W. to Forts Simpson and Providence);
127-131 (Pelly Lake and vicinity); 131 (antics; jumping and
trotting); 133-137 (near Ogden Bay); 133 (majority of does
shedding antlers by late April); 135 (ravens feeding on
carcasses); 137 (warbles eaten by Eskimos); 139 (caribou
wintering on Kent Peninsula, at Cape Barrow, and on Victoria
Island); 143 (Arctic coast Eskimos going inland, summer and
fall, to live on deer); 149 (White Bear Point); 153-167
(mainland near Kent Peninsula); 164-174 (Bathurst Inlet); 177,
185-197 (scarce, Cape Barrow to Coppermine River); 194 (molting,
July; suffering from mosquitoes); 200-208 (lower Coppermine
River); 209, 210 (Kendall River); 215-221 (Dismal Lake); 223,
229-233 (Dease River); 232 (rubbing trees).
_Rangifer arcticus_ . . . (part): Hornaday, 1904: 136 (Great
Bear and Great Slave Lakes to Cape Bathurst); 137 (Carey Lake;
migration); 138 (weight; antlers).
_Rangifer arcticus_ (Richardson): Stone and Cram, 1904: 52
(description; Arctic islands to Hudson Bay and Mackenzie River;
migration; rutting in October; sexual segregation); 53 (food;
Mackay Lake; grunting). (Chiefly quoted from Pike, 1892.)
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