Waterfowl in the economy of the Eskimos n the YukonKuskokwim

• Main Author: David R. Klein
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Arctic 1966
• Subjects: Brant; Yukon; Arctic; eskimo*; esquimaux; Kuskokwim; Alaska
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.569.543; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic19-4-319.pdf

ABSTRACT. Use of waterfowl by Eskimos on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta amounts to approximately 83,000 geese and brant and 38,000 ducks annually with the greatest take occurring during the spring hunting period. About 5,500 swans and 1,000 cranes are also taken throughout flightless adult birds have decreased in importance in recent years, but spring hunting of water-the area and 40,000 eggs are gathered for use as food. Egg gathering and village drives of molting, fowl continues to be important as it coincides with the period of greatest need for food by the Eskimos. Rl?,SUMl?,. Les Oiseaux aquatiques dans I’Cconornie des Esquimaux du Delta du Yukon et du Kuskokwim, Alaska. Chaque annee, les Esquimaux du delta du Yukon et du Kuskokwim tuent environ 83,000 oies et bernaches, 38,000 canards, environ 5,500 cygnes et 1,000 grues et rkcol-tent 40,000 ceufs pour la nourriture. Les collectes d‘ceufs et la chasse aux oiseaux adultes en mue ont perdu de I’importance ces dernikres annCes; mais la chasse des oiseaux aquatiques au prin-temps continue d‘&tre importante, car elle coi’ncide avec la pkriode des plus grands besoins alimentaires des Esquimaux.