FROM CARD: "INVENTORIED 1976."Records in the SI Archives of the Office of Distribution say this was transferred [to whom?] in 1867 but apparently either this is incorrect or it was later returned to the Museum.Source of the information below: Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/137 , retrieved 12-10-2019: A pair of hide gloves. The left hand glove is notable as it has only three fingers.

Rectangular box with top/lid. Card indicates this is Inuit made.E7830 is listed, but not described or analyzed, in Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/136 , retrieved 2-11-2020. General information on boxes available here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/12: The MacFarlane collection contains a variety of wooden boxes. Boxes carved from single pieces of wood, and boxes with sides made from bent pieces of wood with bottoms pegged to them, are traditional Inuvialuit forms that were used for storing tools and other objects. Boxes with separate pieces for each side, bottom and top identified in the Smithsonian Institution's artifact catalogue as 'Packing Box Made by Esquimaux' may have been commissioned by MacFarlane for packing artifacts that were sent to the Smithsonian.

Source of the information below: Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/135 , retrieved 12-19-2019: Man's parka made of caribou hide. The back of the parka is a bit longer than the front and has a slightly curved shape. The hood is made from the head skin of a caribou with the ears intact. Tags of clipped caribou skin are set into the seams. The hem is pieced with several bands of caribou skin and decorated on the inside with a red stained line and snippets of red yarn. A wolverine trim finishes the hem. The sleeves have red wool fabric and wolverine trim at the cuffs. Inside the parka, three strands of large trade beads are strung across the chest. The beads are red, white and a faceted dark blue. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/44: In winter men, women and children wore skin parkas (qusungat) over an inner garment (atigi). They were skillfully tailored using many individual pieces of skin (usually caribou) chosen for the thickness of the hide and qualities of the hair. Men's and women's parkas each had their own style, evident in the shape of the hood and the hem, and children's clothing mirrored the clothing of adults. Each parka was made to fit one particular individual, with the seamstress measuring with hand and eye and following complex patterns that were handed down from generation to generation. Parkas were decorated by incorporating pieces of skin with shorn hair and contrasting colours, and were sometimes coloured with dyes. The hood, cuffs and hem of the parka were usually trimmed with wolverine fur, which kept the cold out and because frost was easy to brush off the thick and stiff fur.

Source of the information below: Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/134 , retrieved 12-10-2019: Man's shirt. The front and the back of the shirt are made from a whole seal hide. The arms are pieced to give dark hide along the top of the arm and a lighter skin along the under side of the arm. On the upper arm, below the shoulder, is a skin fringe and ochre band. The band does not extend all the way under the arm pit. At the bottom of the shirt is a band of caribou skin, a red ochre line, and a fringe of skin. The neckline is finished with skin and long skin tags. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/50: Shirts without hoods were worn under parkas in winter, or by themselves in summer.

Source of the information below: Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/133 , retrieved 1-28-2020: A set of three spindles for a bow drill. The shafts are cylindrical pieces of wood that taper towards rounded ends for fitting into drill bearings. Two of the spindles have iron bits inserted into antler socket pieces attached to the spindles and held in place with twisted sinew wrappings. The third spindle has an iron bit inserted directly into the end of the shaft, and also has a wrapping of twisted sinew. One of the spindle shafts has a lightly incised line that forms a spiral along its length. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/20: The bow drills in the MacFarlane Collection were used for boring holes into wood, antler, bone and ivory. The drill spindle (shaft) has a bit at one end, and the other end is shaped to fit into a bearing that is held between the teeth. The spindle is rotated by wrapping a slack thong attached at each end of a drill bow around it, and moving the bow back and forth. Ancestral Inuvialuit also used another type of bow drill for starting fires.

Source of the information below: Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/132 , retrieved 12-31-2019: Foreshaft for a harpoon made from two pieces of ivory joined at an obliquely cut splice by five rivets. One of the rivets may be copper, and the others are iron. The narrowest end of the foreshaft, which would have been inserted into a socket at the base of a harpoon head, is cut straight across. The other end is rounded, which would have allowed it to swivel when inserted into a harpoon socket piece. This type of foreshaft is normally used for hunting seals at breathing holes. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/30: Harpoons are used for hunting sea mammals such as seals and whales. They have a point, or 'head', that separates from the rest of the harpoon and remains attached to the quarry. A line running from the harpoon head is held by the hunter or attached to a float, allowing the animal or fish to be retrieved. Thrusting harpoons, used for hunting seals at breathing holes on the sea ice, generally have long foreshafts that swivel inside a socket piece attached to the harpoon shaft in order to release the harpoon head. Throwing harpoons used for hunting seals and whales in open water normally have foreshafts that are more securely fixed to the harpoon shaft. Both types are found in the MacFarlane Collection.

This object is listed, but not described or analyzed, in Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/131 , retrieved 1-17-2020.

FROM CARD: "ORIG. NO. 2878, ORIG. NO. 2263."Source of the information below: Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/130 , retrieved 1-3-2020: Knife with an iron blade set into a handle made of antler. The blade has been sharpened by filing along both edges on one face of the blade only. The handle has three indentations cut into one edge to provide a grip. A shallow indentation that encircles the handle at the blade end likely once held a thong or sinew lashing to reinforce that end, which shows a small crack.

Source of the information below: Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/129 , retrieved 2-6-2020: Man's caribou skin parka. The back of the parka is a bit longer than the front and has a slightly curved shape. The hood is made with the head skin of a caribou with the ears intact. Numerous tags of clipped caribou skin are set into the seams. The white haired skin on the hood extends past the shoulders to form gores down the front. Skin tags are also set into seams on the arms. The hem is trimmed in wolverine fur. A bird feather adorns the back of the right shoulder. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/44: In winter men, women and children wore skin parkas (qusungat) over an inner garment (atigi). They were skillfully tailored using many individual pieces of skin (usually caribou) chosen for the thickness of the hide and qualities of the hair. Men's and women's parkas each had their own style, evident in the shape of the hood and the hem, and children's clothing mirrored the clothing of adults. Each parka was made to fit one particular individual, with the seamstress measuring with hand and eye and following complex patterns that were handed down from generation to generation. Parkas were decorated by incorporating pieces of skin with shorn hair and contrasting colours, and were sometimes coloured with dyes. The hood, cuffs and hem of the parka were usually trimmed with wolverine fur, which kept the cold out and because frost was easy to brush off the thick and stiff fur.

Source of the information below: Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/128 , retrieved 2-6-2020: Needle case, strap and belt hook. The needle case is a hollow ivory tube with eight shallow holes drilled around the circumference at both ends that at one time may have had split beads embedded in them. A larger, similar hole near one end probably served a similar purpose, and two incised lines encircle the case near its midpoint. One end of a hide strap that passes through the needle case has a large white bead attached that prevents the strap from pulling through the case. The other end of the strap is attached to one end of an ivory implement of a type that has variously been identified as a belt hook or a holder for skin thimbles. This object is a flattened piece of ivory with a hole at one end where it attaches to the strap. A slit runs from one side almost to the other end and terminates at a drilled hole, probably to prevent it from splitting. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/42: Sewing needles were kept in a tube-like case with a skin strap running through the centre. The needles were stuck into the strap, and then pulled into the case. Hooks for fastening the case to a belt, or holders for thimbles made from skin, were often attached to one end of the leather straps.