[Illustration: FIG. 13. Camp Slough, with trails showing the recent passage of Caribou through the sedge growth (predominantly _Carex chordorrhiza_). Black spruce in the foreground and distance. August 29, 1947.] [Illustration: FIG. 14. A Caribou _Elysium_: a hornless doe approaching within 15 feet of the photographer at the mouth of Little River. August 30, 1947.] [Illustration: FIG. 15. Anoteelik in caribou-skin clothing, holding a caribou spear. A buck on the skyline. Mouth of Windy River, September 7, 1947.] [Illustration: FIG. 16. Katello, a Padleimiut Eskimo from the upper Kazan River, in a coat (_attigi_) and boots (_komik_) of caribou skin. Windy River, Oct. 6, 1947.] [Illustration: FIG. 17. Charles Schweder with the fresh, warble-infested hide of a Caribou buck (specimen No. 1033). Windy River, June 3, 1947.] [Illustration: FIG. 18. Hide of a Caribou doe, about four years old, with about 130 small warbles or warble scars (concentrated on the rump). Windy River, September 15, 1947.] Only a small proportion of the hides of the locally killed Caribou are preserved. A hide that would fetch only a dollar at Reindeer Lake would not be worth transporting more than 250 miles from Nueltin Lake. Hearne long ago (1795: 84) remarked on the remoteness of the hunting grounds from the trading posts as a barrier to trade in the skins; and this condition prevails to a large extent to the present day. Thus only such hides as are required for domestic use are kept. Tanning, while done by the Eskimos of the upper Kazan, is not undertaken by the residents on Windy River. Here the task of drying the hides is left mainly to the children of the camp. Most of them are pegged out on the summit of a gravelly ridge, wooden pegs being driven with a rock through slits in the edges of the skin (fig. 6). Now and then one is nailed to the outer wall of a log cabin (fig. 18).