Gilmore RANGIFER (REINDEER) (3) 1931 By the time the atlas was freed loose from the form occipital condyles, the deer was generally well nigh dead and the youths covered with blood. When the frightened deer were driven thru the chutes, a comet was taken and all yearlings thrown violently to the ground by several natives, who grasping the horns, threw their body knee back fashion over the hamches of the deer and bore it to the ground by their sheer weight. Often the legs were of the animal were stretched straight out behind, there being no time to double them under in a natural unstrained position during the quick downward & forward fall. Males were castrated by punching off the vas deferentia with a hand squeezing tool, and both sexes were ear marked in very very generous fashion. Some of the severed portions of the ear cartilage could have covered the palm of my hand. Throughout my whole visit the natives showed great pleasure in this work.