“Caribou”: Wheeler, 1912: 199 (Fort Enterprise and Coppermine
River; 1910 a very poor caribou year; females and yearlings
taken in April; females [only?] wintering between Rae and
Enterprise, and largely exterminated; usual numbers in 1911;
large migration of males commenced May 18); 200 (between
Coppermine River and Bathurst Inlet; by June 10 all caribou
beyond [N. of] Coppermine River).
“Barren ground caribou”: R. M. Anderson, 1913a: 5 (recent
great decrease); 6 (stragglers left in Mackenzie Delta region;
great diminution along Arctic coast E. to Cape Parry, since
recent advent of whaling ships; great numbers on Victoria Island
in summer, crossing to mainland for winter; Great Bear Lake and
Coppermine River; drives and spearing by Eskimos); 6, 8
(importance to Eskimos for clothing and meat); 8 (poor sight of
caribou; hunting methods).
_Rangifer arcticus_ (Richardson): R. M. Anderson, in Stefánsson,
1913b: 502 (importance in native economy; recent enormous
decrease; few left in Eskimo Lakes region, on Cape Bathurst, and
at Langton and Darnley Bays; great number in summer on Victoria
Island, migrating to the mainland); 503 (Great Bear Lake;
Coppermine River; occurrence on Arctic coast at any season;
Eskimos driving them between lines of stone monuments into water
and there spearing them); 504 (hunting methods; senses;
infestation by bot-fly); 504-505 (fawning); 505 (geographical
variation; antler growth and change); 505-506 (fat); 516
(relations to wolves).
_“Caribou”_: Stefánsson, 1913a: 93 (ravens in Arctic feeding
on caribou left by wolves); 94 (caribou moving N., Prince Albert
Sound, Victoria Island, May 12); 95-96 (migrating across Dolphin
and Union Strait, March and May); 99 (plentiful on Dease River,
winter of 1910-11; abundant on lower Coppermine River, March; no
great numbers cross central Coronation Gulf; wintering on coast
E. of Coppermine; many moving N. across w. Coronation Gulf and
Dolphin and Union Strait, April and May, and w. Victoria Island,
May); 100 (migration across Kent Peninsula and in se. Victoria
Island); 102 (E. of Cape Bexley); 103, 106 (numbers wintering on
Banks Island, but few or none on Victoria Island); 105 (Eskimos
hunting caribou in summer on s. Victoria Island); 106 (caribou
wintering from Cape Bathurst to Kent Peninsula; migration N.
across Coronation Gulf and Dolphin and Union Strait, April 1-May
20, and S. in the fall as soon as the ice is strong enough; tens
of thousands on Dease River in late October; differences between
Victoria Island and mainland specimens).
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