“Caribou”: Stefánsson, 1913b: 27 (Fort Smith a “meat post”);
29 (abundant at Fort Norman 50 years previously); 127, 128, 156,
158 (Langton Bay); 130, 135, 137, 141, 142 (Horton River); 146
(Cape Parry); 151 (extreme scarcity of hornless caribou); 163
(Cape Lyon); 164 (Port Pierce; human eye keener than caribou’s);
203 (summer hunting by Eskimos S. of Dolphin and Union Strait);
203-204 (migration N. to Victoria Island); 204 (bot-fly larvae);
205 (near Dolphin and Union Strait); 210, 212, 213 (lower
Coppermine River); 212-213 (seeking protection from mosquitoes
on snow banks); 214 (Dismal Lake); 215 (summer hunting by
Eskimos on Dease River); 219 (Great Bear Lake); 221 (August
skins for Eskimo clothing); 224-225 (hundreds of thousands,
Dease River, October); 228, 235 (N. of Great Bear Lake); 231,
232 (Horton River); 238, 239 (Kendall River); 241 (lower
Coppermine River); 241-244 (geographical variation in caribou);
263-265, 269 (migrating N. across Coronation Gulf and Dolphin
and Union Strait, early May); 274, 278, 287, 289, 297, 298, 301
(Victoria Island); 276-277 (variation from mainland animals);
278 (habitual wariness); 281 (caribou-skin tents and Eskimo
hunting, Victoria Island); 289 (Banks Island); 294 (few on
Victoria Island in winter); 324 (Cape Parry); 333 (Langton Bay;
skins spoiled by warble fly larvae, June and early July; skins
thick in summer and fall); 335 (“Endicott” [= Melville]
Mountains); 337-338 (Eskimo methods of hunting and curing meat);
348-350 (migrating NW., Horton River, October); 364 (Langton
Bay, February-March).
_Rangifer arcticus_ (Richardson): Chambers, 1914: 93 (immense
herd, between Churchill and Owl River, December); 291-294 (Great
Bear and Great Slave Lakes); 294 (Mackenzie Delta region);
342-350 (summation of records on the Barren Grounds).
“Caribou”: Douglas, 1914: 103, 167, 168, 179, 180 (Dease River);
121, 190, 192, 196, 214 (lower Coppermine River); 137 (Great
Bear Lake); 157, 158 (very scarce, Great Bear Lake, winter); 185
(Dismal Lakes); 191-192 (larvae of warble and nostril flies).
_Rangifer arcticus_ . . . (part): Hornaday, 1914, +2+: 97
(importance to Indians); 100 (the great mass between Cape
Bathurst and Great Slave Lake; tens of thousands killed by
natives for whalers); 101-104 (migrations); 103 (voice); 104
(tameness of large numbers; weight); 225-226 (numbers).
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