“Caribou”: Mallet, 1930: 13 (Eskimo clothing of skins, Kazan
River); 20-23 (great migrant herd, led by a doe, crossing Kazan
River near Yathkyed Lake); 27 (small herds migrating S., Ennadai
Lake, August); 32 (Chipewyan drum of caribou skin); 85 (Eskimos
between Nueltin and Baker lakes living on caribou); 87 (Eskimo
clothing of caribou fur); 89 (Eskimos starving for lack of
caribou); 90 (500 consumed per winter by 20-odd Eskimos); 92
(caribou-skin gloves; tongues as provisions for journey); 95
(Eskimos eating raw frozen caribou in winter and “lukewarm meat”
in summer); 102 (Eskimo tent of skins on Kazan River); 116
(Indians eating caribou on Kasmere River); 131-140 (Eskimo band
succumbing to starvation for lack of caribou).
_Rangifer arcticus arcticus_ Richardson: Jacobi, 1931: 78-80
(description); 80-84 (N. to Baffin Island and other Arctic
islands; E. to Hudson Bay, Southampton Island, and Melville
Peninsula; S. to Churchill River, Reindeer Lake, and Fort
McMurray; W. to Athabaska and Mackenzie Rivers); 140
(phylogeny); 156, 157, 159 (depletion by natives, whalers, and
traders); 186-187 (habitat); 190 (occurrence in herds); 192-210
(migrations: causes, extent, routes, numbers, behavior,
segregation by sex and age, dates, winter quarters); 216
(swimming); 219, 220 (unwariness; curiosity); 223 (food); 232
(reproduction); 236 (molt); 237 (change of antlers); 240-241
(predation by wolves); 244-245 (parasitic flies).
_Rangifer arcticus arcticus_ (Richardson): Harper, 1932: 30
(Lake Athabaska; excessive slaughter by Indians; Tazin
Highlands; food; Thainka Lake; junction of Tazin and Taltson
Rivers; avoiding lower Taltson River after fire); 31 (Great
Slave Lake; “near Artillery Lake” [= Stark Lake?]; Indians
spearing hundreds in water; migration; havoc by wolves;
Caribou-eater Chipewyans).
“Caribou”: Jenness, 1932: 47, 48, 58, 59 (caribou in Indian
economy); 51, 58, 75, 406-408, 411, 412, 414, 415 (caribou in
Eskimo economy).
“Cariboo” or “deer”: Munn, 1932: 57 (Artillery Lake); 58 (great
migration of perhaps 2,000,000 between Artillery and Great Slave
lakes; relation to mosquitoes); 168 (Baffin Island); 191-192
(Eskimo sleeping-bags and clothing of caribou skin, Baffin
Island); 210, 214 (Eskimos hunting deer, Southampton Island);
255 (trade in skins from Melville Peninsula); 271 (depletion of
Baffin Island herds); 278 (decimation of caribou in w. Arctic
due to Eskimos trapping white fox instead of sealing in winter).
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