“Caribou” or “deer”: Stefánsson, 1914: 13 (former abundance from
Mackenzie River eastward); 26 (scarce near +Rae River+); 39
(common the year round on Banks Island; abundant in summer, but
scarce in winter, Victoria Island); 41 (migrating S. across
Coronation Gulf in November); 48 (stomach contents and droppings
eaten by Eskimos, Coronation Gulf); 54 (crossing ice in
migrating N., April and May); 56 (chief source of Eskimo food in
summer, Coronation Gulf); 57 (hunting with spear and bow); 58
(poor eyesight); 58-59 (use as food by Eskimos); 97 (kayak used
in spearing caribou); 137, 139 (former hunting in Mackenzie
Delta region); 140-141 (skin clothing in Mackenzie Delta
region); 147-148 (methods of removing and drying skins,
Mackenzie Delta region); 150 (use of skins and sinew); 275
(status about Great Bear Lake); 296 (droppings and warbles eaten
by Eskimos, Victoria Island); 353 (caribou taboos); 355-356
(many on Mackenzie coast).
“Caribou”: Wheeler, 1914: 52 (Dog-rib clothing of caribou
skins); 54 (between Forts Rae and Enterprise); 56 (Fort Rae’s
early trade in caribou meat and skins); 58 (countless thousands,
moving E., Great Slave Lake; Indian use of meat); 60 (caribou
scarce N. of Great Slave Lake after burning of country); 65
(plentiful, Little Marten Lake); 67 (near Lake Providence).
_Rangifer arcticus_. . .: Harper, 1915: 160 (Tazin-Taltson
Basin).
_Rangifer tarandus arcticus_ (Richardson): Lydekker, 1915: 254
(bibliographical references; type locality; description; Baffin
Island).
_Tarandus rangifer arcticus_ (Richardson): Millais, 1915:
255-256 (considered conspecific with Woodland Caribou); 258, 263
(supposed interbreeding with Woodland Caribou); 261
(description; in winter ranging “west to the Rockies above Fort
Vermilion”[!]).
“Barren Ground Caribou”: Camsell, 1916: 21 (Tazin-Taltson Basin,
autumn and winter).
_Rangifer arcticus_ . . . (part): Nelson, 1916: 460 (Arctic
barrens; numbers; Artillery Lake; gait); 460-461 (use as food).
“Rein Deer”: Thompson, 1916: 19 (Eskimo lances pointed with
leg-bone); 99 ([Barren Ground or Woodland species?] numerous in
spring on Hayes River, where snared by Indians); 100-101
(immense herd estimated at 3,564,000 individuals, crossing Hayes
River 20 miles above York Factory in late May, 1792).
“Caribou”: J. B. Tyrrell, in Thompson, 1916: 16 (Eskimos on
Kazan River subsisting chiefly on caribou, killing them with
spears and using their skins for clothing and kayaks).
_Rangifer arcticus_ . . .: Kindle, 1917: 107-108 (tens of
thousands E. of Slave River, early winter); 108-109 (previous
accounts of great numbers).
“Barren Ground Caribou”: Camsell and Malcolm, 1919: 46 (e.
border of Mackenzie Basin; migration).
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