"My son, everything that applies to hunting the moose, applies to
hunting the caribou, except that the hunter never tries to 'call' the
caribou. But now I recollect that there is one thing about moose
hunting that I forgot to tell you and it applies also to hunting the
caribou. In some localities barriers are still in use, but nowadays
they seldom make new ones. In the old days whole tribes used to take
part in barrier hunting and sometimes the barriers would stretch for
fifteen or twenty miles and were usually made from one part of the
river to another, and thus they marked off the woods enclosed in a
river's bend. Barriers are made by felling trees in a line; or, in an
open place, or upon a river or lake, placing a line of little trees in
the snow about ten paces apart. Small evergreens with the butts no
thicker than a man's thumb were often used; yet an artificial line of
such brush was enough to turn moose or caribou and cause them to move
forward in a certain direction where the hunters were hiding. Even big
clumps of moss, placed upon trees, will produce the same effect.
Frequently, too, snares for deer are set in suitable places along the
barrier, and while the snares are made of babiche the loops are kept
open with blades of grass.

"There is still another thing I forgot to tell you about moose
hunting--my son, I must be growing old when I forget so much. While my
Indian cousins in the East use birch-bark horns for calling moose, my
other cousins in the Far North never do, yet they call moose, too, but
in a different way. They use the shoulder blade of a deer. Thus, when
a bull is approaching, the hunter stands behind a tree and rubs the
shoulder blade upon the trunk or strikes it against the branches of a
neighbouring bush, as it then makes a sound not unlike a bull thrashing
his horns about. Such a sound makes a bull believe that another is
approaching and ready to fight him for the possession of the cow, and