HEADS AND HORNS 



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spread 74^^ inches when freshly killed, and they 

 have 10+ 1 1 points. The palmation is io}4 

 inches wide and the circumference of beam is 

 inches. This is believed to be the widest spread 

 to which Yukon can lay claim. The other moose, 



From the Canadian Rockies 



killed at the same time by another of the Indians, 

 had massive antlers spreading 63 inches, with 

 18 + 15 points, and with blades 16 inches wide.^^ 

 These heads are in the possession of William 

 Norton, a taxidermist, now living in San Francisco, 

 but formerly of Dawson. A. P. Engelhardt, Terri- 



'3 The present owner gave the weight of this second pair of antlers, 

 with skull, including the lower jaw, as ioij4 pounds. He said the 

 Indians hauled the heads to Dawson on a toboggan, a distance of three 

 hundred miles. In their opinion the moose had gone up the mountain 

 to escape from wolves. 



