From card: "Made of black velvet, stuffed with sawdust or shavings, lozenge-shaped, rounded ends, double row of white beads around edge, loops pink beads represent the legs. Braided red cord at nose end. Indian donor had never seen another such beaver charm."

From card: "Gift of Josephine McLeod, 1934. Small yellow and brown duck head decorated with short strings of red and blue beads, and tassels of red and purple ribbon. The first of its kind each year so is prepared and kept until next season in thankfulness for the bird as food."

From card: "Gift of Mathew Cowboy, 1932 who made it up for Dr. Cooper, supposedly in old style. Oblong, black wool front, and speckled red cotton behind on a semi-stiff inside. Bound in blue ribbon on edge, decorated with large open hour-glass shaped design in red, white and blue beads, also 4 beaded outline designs of animals - bird , deer, beaver and another border design of small blue & orange beaded triangles. Sacred kept hidden, worn only when hunting. Supposed to represent the thunder-bird achieved in a dream."

From card: "Round slightly tapered stick, with hole through its length."

From card: "In two pieces (once one specimen); one being upper portion with sleeves; other lower portion; the two pieces fit together perfectly, to make a coat of generalized Naskapi style made of seven pieces of skin sewn together (1 each arm; 1 center back; 1 left side; 1 rt. side; (2 small pieces inset to back). Predominantly decoration is simple painted design in bands of red and size marking. All the latter is linear; red mainly straight lines, some wavy and some solid triangles, at top; also red dots in neck border. Red flannel or strouding edging top of shoulder seams, and arm-body seams. There is no collar, and neck form like that of a poncho Plains Indian shirt. [Culture listed as Algonkian on catalogue card.] Catlin did not visit the Naskapi, if this was collected by him in the field it was obtained most likely in the Great Lakes area. Possibly Ojibwa or Cree - John C. Ewers, Jan. 15, 1948." Identified by Morgan Baillargeon, Canadian Museum of Civilization, 2009, as possibly Montagnais?