_Rangifer arcticus arcticus_ (Richardson): Sutton and Hamilton,
1932: 33, 35, 36, 81, 82, 84, 85 (predation by wolves,
Southampton Island); 79 (formerly abundant, but no longer); 79,
81 (migration); 80-83, 86-87 (hunting and utilization by
Eskimos); 81 (scatology); 81, 84-86 (reproduction); 81-86
(antler growth and shedding); 83 (standing on hind legs); 84
(food; foot-glands; voice); 84-86 (parasitic and other flies);
87-88 (description); 88 (previous records on Southampton
Island).
_Rangifer tarandus arcticus_. . .: Weyer, 1932: 38 (most
important land animal to Eskimos); 39 (utilization by Eskimos;
food); 40 (fawning period; seasonal fat; migration).
_Rangifer arcticus_. . .: Birket-Smith, 1933: 89 (immense
numbers on Barren Grounds, but recently declining); 90 (gadflies
plaguing caribou); 91-92 (migration); 92 (thousands at Baker
Lake, late July; scourged by mosquitoes); 93 (no longer
migrating from Victoria Island to mainland); 94 (occurrence in
autumn and winter at Repulse Bay); 100 (good hunting near Whale
Point, Roe’s Welcome; use of cairns in hunting by Eskimos); 106
(not many near Eskimo Point); 112 (great migration at Baker Lake
beginning in June); 118 (deer crossings on lower Kazan River);
121 (difficulty of reconciling reindeer culture with presence of
caribou).
“Caribou”: Ingstad, 1933: 34 (caribou deflected on s. side of
Great Slave Lake by forest fires); 48 (buck on Barren Grounds
harassed by black flies); 85, 110 (E. of Great Slave Lake); 86
(asleep on ice of lakes); 87 (leaping into air before running
off); 88 (varying wariness); 90 (carcass as fox bait near
Artillery Lake); 118, 122 (use of meat and hides by Indians,
Great Slave Lake); 134-135, 324 (spring migration across Great
Slave Lake); 135 (antler velvet eaten by Indians; larvae of
nostril and warble flies); 139 (Indian drum of caribou skin);
156-159 (migration; followed by wolves, ravens, foxes, and
wolverines); 158 (rutting season and behavior); 159 (antler
shedding); 160 (numbers); 161 (migration influenced by grazing
available; fawning on Arctic islands); 162 (separation into
different herd groupings); 162-163 (destruction by Eskimos with
firearms along Arctic coast); 163 (migration deflected by
burning of country); 165-166 (conservation; wolf predation); 167
(dependence of Caribou-eater Indians on this animal); 176, 181
(Stark Lake and vicinity); 186-187 (use of meat by
Caribou-eaters); 204, 216, 218, 220, 222 (upper Thelon River
region); 207 (predation by wolves); 225, 229-231 (Nonacho Lake
area); 247, 253 (dependence of Barren Ground Indians on
caribou); 253-254 (former hunting with spears, bows, dogteams,
barriers, snares); 257-259 (Indian use of meat and hides); 280
(migrating near e. end of Great Slave Lake); 291, 293, 296
(thousands in winter on Barrens E. of Great Slave Lake); 293,
297 (unwariness); 302-304, 306-307 (predation by wolves on
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