“Caribou”: Rasmussen, 1927: 5 (Eskimos clad in caribou skin,
Melville Peninsula); 20-21 (hunting on Melville Peninsula); 23
(Eskimo stores of caribou meat); 54 (caribou moving N., Baker
Lake, May); 59-60, 103, 105 (hunting by Eskimos, lower Kazan
River); 63, 68 (Yathkyed Lake); 65 (warble fly larvae as Eskimo
delicacy); 67 (decrease in Eskimos and caribou at Yathkyed
Lake); 68 (stone cairns for deflecting caribou); 73-77 (Eskimo
hunting methods); 104-106 (Eskimos starving for lack of caribou,
lower Kazan River); 145 (Eskimos hunting near Admiralty Inlet);
166-167 (caribou obtained by Eskimos, Pelly Bay); 205 (King
William Island); 214-217 (migration, September 15-21, King
William Island); 245 (Eskimos of Victoria Island living on
caribou in summer and autumn); 246 (enormous herds crossing
delta of Ellice River; Kent Peninsula becoming depopulated of
Eskimos through failure of caribou).
_Rangifer arcticus arcticus_ (Richardson): Anthony, 1928:
530-531 (description); 532 (Barren Grounds; former abundance;
destruction).
“Caribou”: Kindle, 1928: 72-73 (numbers estimated at more than
30,000,000; utilization by natives for clothing and meat); 74
(economic value of reindeer).
_Rangifer arcticus_. . .: Birket-Smith, 1929 (1): 9, 47, 57
(importance to Caribou Eskimos); 48 (back fat); 50 (wintering on
Barren Grounds; moving against wind; antler shedding; poor
quality of winter meat); 51 (wolves hunting caribou; does first
on spring migration; fawning in June); 52-53 (Eskimos feasting
on caribou in spring); 56 (fawning in late June and early July;
great migration at Baker Lake, late July; plagued by _Oedemagena
tarandi_; most important Eskimo hunting in late summer and early
autumn); 86 (tents of caribou skin among Caribou Eskimos); 89
(Eskimo spade made of antler); 90 (bags of caribou skin; fat for
illumination); 94 (skins for household use); 96 (the principal
diet among Caribou Eskimos); 98 (hunting by means of fences);
100 (Yathkyed Lake); 101 (heedless slaughter by Eskimos;
migration always incalculable; fox-trapping replacing
caribou-hunting); 102 (former use of bow in hunting); 104
(arrowheads of caribou bones); 106 (hunting by Eskimos;
wariness; keen hearing and smell; buck attacking a man at
Vansittart Island; deer-crossings in region of Baker Lake and
Kazan River); 107 (Eskimo hunting methods); 108 (snow pitfalls);
109-110 (spearing in water; swimming ability); 110-111 (driving
between lines of cairns); 112 (snares); 133 (gadfly larvae as
Eskimo delicacy); 134-135 (seasonal hunting); 135 (frequent
starvation of Eskimos in lack of caribou); 137 (staple food of
Caribou Eskimos); 138-139 (taboos in use of meat); 140-147
(Eskimo dressing of carcasses); 141-144 (raw, cooked, and dried
meat in Eskimo diet); 171 (meat as dog food); 186 (deerskin for
kayaks); 191, 196, 199-223 (Eskimo clothing of deerskin); 232,
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