Musk-ox, bison, sheep, and goat . ou pelts, andthe latter is used for the summer trips. Nor doyou need a tepee in summer. IV Method of Hunting Among the Indians that live south and westof the Barren Grounds (no Indian Hves in theBarren Grounds), the method of hunting themusk-ox is practically the same, and, as I haveshown in the early part of this paper, it is be-cause the Indians lack high hunting skill andbecause their dogs are neither trained nor coura-geous that bigger kills are not made. Whitehunters and trained dogs could practically wipeout every herd of musk-oxen they encountered;for w
Musk-ox, bison, sheep, and goat . ou pelts, andthe latter is used for the summer trips. Nor doyou need a tepee in summer. IV Method of Hunting Among the Indians that live south and westof the Barren Grounds (no Indian Hves in theBarren Grounds), the method of hunting themusk-ox is practically the same, and, as I haveshown in the early part of this paper, it is be-cause the Indians lack high hunting skill andbecause their dogs are neither trained nor coura-geous that bigger kills are not made. Whitehunters and trained dogs could practically wipeout every herd of musk-oxen they encountered;for while it is true that musk-oxen give you a longrun once you have sighted them, yet when you getup to them, when the dogs have brought them tobay, it is almost like shooting cattle in a is always a long run. I think I never hadless than three miles, and in the first hunt whichI have described, I must have run nine or , as I say, when you get up to them it is easy,for they will stand to the dogs so long as the 56. EAST GREENLAND MUSK-OX CALF Collected at Fort Conger by Commander R. E. Peary, (From a photographprovided by the American Museum of Natural History)
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