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Geographical Note: Lake Nueltin straddles the border betweenNunavut and Manitoba. The area covered by the map is in southernNunavut, in the region now written Kivalliq. “Eskimo Point” is modernArviat.
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Cover A Caribou buck signaling with asprawling posture of the left hind leg. Drawing by Earl L. Poole; basedupon a motion-picture film taken August 24, 1947, near the Windy Riverpost.