Andrew Graham, Thomas Hutchins, and the First Record of Peary's Caribou
The eighteenth century naturalist Thomas Pennant published the following note in 1787: "Mr. Hutchins was presented, by the Weahipouk Indians, with a Deer four feet eight inches long and three feet two high. It was entirely white, except for the back which was mottled with brown. The fur was sho...
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ftunivcalgaryojs:oai:journalhosting.ucalgary.ca:article/66739 2023-05-15T14:19:21+02:00 Andrew Graham, Thomas Hutchins, and the First Record of Peary's Caribou Glover, Richard 1960-01-01 application/pdf https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66739 eng eng The Arctic Institute of North America https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66739/50652 https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66739 ARCTIC; Vol. 13 No. 1 (1960): March: 1–72; 52-54 1923-1245 0004-0843 Driftwood Dust Heat budgets Heat transmission Growth Ice islands Ice shelves Mollusks Ocean currents Puddles Radiocarbon dating Recent epoch Salinity Sea water Snow Stress Temperature Thermal regimes Thickness Topography Velocity Winds Arctic Ocean Ellesmere Island Nunavut info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion research-article 1960 ftunivcalgaryojs 2022-03-22T21:23:31Z The eighteenth century naturalist Thomas Pennant published the following note in 1787: "Mr. Hutchins was presented, by the Weahipouk Indians, with a Deer four feet eight inches long and three feet two high. It was entirely white, except for the back which was mottled with brown. The fur was short and fine like that of the Ermine. The Indians, in their manner of expression, said it came from a place where there was little or no day." This description sounds extremely like Peary's caribou, but there are obvious difficulties in accepting it as the first record of that remote species of deer. Who, it must be asked, were the "Weahipouk" Indians? How were any Indians able to secure the skin of an animal that lived north of the range of most Eskimos? And how did they come to make a present of it to Dr. Thomas Hutchins who spent most of his time in America at Fort Albany on James Bay and was never at any time north of Fort York? Through the kindness of Miss Alice Johnson, archivist of the Hudson's Bay Company, it has become possible to answer these questions and also to assert that Pennant's note is indeed the earliest description of Peary's caribou, although an inaccurate one. . Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Arctic Ocean caribou Ellesmere Island Ermine eskimo* Ice Shelves James Bay Nunavut James Bay University of Calgary Journal Hosting Arctic Arctic Ocean Ellesmere Island Fort Albany ENVELOPE(-81.667,-81.667,52.200,52.200) Nunavut ARCTIC 13 1 |
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The eighteenth century naturalist Thomas Pennant published the following note in 1787: "Mr. Hutchins was presented, by the Weahipouk Indians, with a Deer four feet eight inches long and three feet two high. It was entirely white, except for the back which was mottled with brown. The fur was short and fine like that of the Ermine. The Indians, in their manner of expression, said it came from a place where there was little or no day." This description sounds extremely like Peary's caribou, but there are obvious difficulties in accepting it as the first record of that remote species of deer. Who, it must be asked, were the "Weahipouk" Indians? How were any Indians able to secure the skin of an animal that lived north of the range of most Eskimos? And how did they come to make a present of it to Dr. Thomas Hutchins who spent most of his time in America at Fort Albany on James Bay and was never at any time north of Fort York? Through the kindness of Miss Alice Johnson, archivist of the Hudson's Bay Company, it has become possible to answer these questions and also to assert that Pennant's note is indeed the earliest description of Peary's caribou, although an inaccurate one. . |
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Andrew Graham, Thomas Hutchins, and the First Record of Peary's Caribou |
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