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south or from the tri!)es along the Mackenzie. They lived prin- 
cipally by the chase, using bows and arrows, spears, clubs (for 
beaver), and above all snares of babiche or twisted sinew. Buffalo 
were plentiful in pre-Kuropean times, according to Indian traditions, 
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SaltiK>n-\veir of the Ivutxhin Indians, Uppei' Yukon river. 
(I'hnio by IF. E, Coek field.) 
and sheep and goats still exist in numbers on the mountain ranges; 
but the most important game animal was the caribou, which the 
Kaska, like their kinsmen to the east, south, and west, drove into 
