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From card: "... Pouch made from tail of a beaver. Half-breeds [sic, mixed-bloods, possibly Metis?] of Northwest River Post, Hudson Bay Co., Labrador, 1891."
From card: "Under lip of bear used for mole cases."Illus. p. 263 in Turner, Lucien M., Scott A. Heyes, and K. M. Helgen. 2014. Mammals of Ungava & Labrador: the 1882-1884 fieldnotes of Lucien M. Turner together with Inuit and Innu knowledge. Identified there: "Bear onrament with beads. A beaded bear lip ornament used by the Innu, possibly as a charm, collected by Turner at Ft. Chimo. Turner recorded that the ornament originated from the Little Whale River. He apparently believed that the ornament was made from the skin of a brown bear (Ursus arctos), writing: "These mementos are procured with great difficulty from the hunter who has risked his life in the struggles attending the capture of these beasts, for the barren-ground bear of that region is nto a timid creature like the Black Bear; and unless the hunter is well prepared for the animal he would do well to let it alone" (Turner 1894: 275)."
From card: "No. 90156 - Illus. in BAE 24th AR, fig. 709, p. 539 [under original # 3214; identified there as Naskapi]."