IDENTIFIED AS KUTCHIN TYPE BY JUDY THOMPSON, WESTERN SUBARCTIC CURATOR AT THE CANADIAN MUSEUM OF CIVILIZATION, 1999. FROM CARD: "BEADED, QUILLED, AND FRINGED SINEW SEWN. PART OF COSTUME INCLUDING NOS. 328766-69. BEAUTIFUL; WHITE COLOR. ILLUS. IN THE FAR NORTH CATALOG, NAT. GALL. OF ART, 1973, P. 148 [attributed as Kutchin in publication]." MATERIALS: WHITE CARIBOU HIDE, PORCUPINE QUILLS, SILVER WILLOW SEEDS, SINEW.Clothing set E328766, E328767, and E328768 is illus. Fig. 8, p. 53 in Thompson, Judy, 1999, "Marketing Tradition: Late Nineteenth-Century Gwich'in Clothing Ensembles," American Indian Art Magazine, 24(4). Identified there: "Clothing ensemble comprised of a tunic, moccasin-trousers and hood, Gwich'in type. White caribou hide, porcupine quills, sinew and silver willow seeds. Collected by Bernard Ross, 1860. The breast band and front above the breast band are decorated with bands of loom-woven quillwork; the wrists of the tunic and the moccasin-trousers adn hood are decorated with folded quills ...."

FROM CARD: "1855 & 1856 ILLUS.: FIG. 2.22, PP. 46 + 47 IN NORTHERN ATHAPASKAN ART BY KATE DUNCAN, UNIV. OF WASHINGTON PRESS, 1989. IDENTIFIED THERE AS SUMMER TUNIC AND MOCCASIN TROUSERS, LOUCHEUX, CARIBOU HIDE, RED AND WHITE OPAQUE BUGLE BEADS SEWN WITH SINEW, RED OCHRE."Tunic Illus. Fig. 64D p. 94 in Van Kampen, Ukjese. 2012. The History of Yukon First Nations Art, Phd dissertation, Leiden University. https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/18984 . Van Kampen identifies it as a woman's dress.

Illus. Fig. 3.18a (photo) and 3.18b (drawing), p. 110 in Thompson, Judy. 2013. Women's work, women's art: nineteenth-century northern Athapaskan clothing. Gatineau: Canadian Museum of Civilization. This robe is also analyzed in appendix 2, no. 12, p. 272. Identified as caribou hide robe, Gwich'in or possibly Inuvialuit (Mackenzie Delta Inuit); caribou hide, ocher. The body of the robe is made from three vertically aligned rectangles of furred caribou hide. The central segment is of medium brown fur, probably taken from the back of the animal. The two side pieces are probably from the flanks and belly, as the fur colour changes from brown to white along the unseamed edges (which form the front of the robe). A narrow, horizontally positioned rectangle of brown fur is sewn above the three rectangles and, above this, a piece of white-furred hide (from the belly) forms the top of the robe and a short, narrow portion on either side. The robe is edged with a short self fringe on two sides and along all but the middle section of the top. On the flesh side of the hides, a line of red ochre is drawn at the base of the fringing and another ochre line marks the centre of the narrow, horizontally placed hide segment. There is, as well, a piping of smoked caribou hide, slashed at an angle at intervals of about 10 cm to form a three-strand fringe, inserted in the principal seams.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/63 , retrieved 1-17-2020.

FROM CARD: "ONCE IDENTIFIED AS ESKIMO. BROAD BLADED STEEL KNIFE BIFURCATING INTO A Y-SHAPED HANDLE WITH COILED TIPS. HANDLE LASHED WITH CANE. BLADE WITH CENTRAL RIDGE ON ONE SIDE ONLY. *DOUBLE ENTRY UNDER CAT. #601. ILLUS. IN THE FAR NORTH CATALOG, NAT. GALL. OF ART, 1973, P. 157. LOANED TO THE ARTS COUNCIL OF GREAT BRITAIN 09/13/76. LOAN RETURNED 7/28/1977. LOAN: CROSSROADS SEP 22 1988. LOAN RETURNED: JAN 21 1993. ILLUS.: CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS CATALOGUE; FIG. 304, P.229." Crossroads of Continents caption identifies as probably Kutchin: "Long knives with flaring, voluted handles were used for both hunting and fighting. They were originally made from copper obtained through the native trade system; later examples like this one collected in the 1860s are made of trade steel. Lashed to wooden poles, they were used by especially daring hunters to kill bears."

FROM CARD: "7470-1. MODEL --ROUND FRAME; ROUND-POINTED TOE, STRONGLY CURVED UP; BROAD HEEL, TERMINATING IN SHORT, SHARP POINT. NETTING CLOSE AND FINE OF LINE CUT FROM PREPARED DEERSKINS, CALLED BABICHE, ROVE THROUGH FRAME; THAT UNDER FOOT BEING COARSER AND MORE OPEN. PAINTED AND ORNAMENTED WITH LINE OF LARGE BLUE GLASS BEADS ALONG MIDDLE OF NETTING. 7470-L. 23", GREATEST BREADTH 4 1/2". [LOAN] A NATION OF NATIONS 12/75. LOAN RETURNED AUG 1988."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/9 , retrieved 1-31-2020: These long, teardrop-shaped snowshoes are rounded and upturned at the front ('toe') and pointed at the tail. The frame of each is made from wood, probably willow, joined at the at the tail by a thong and at the toe by a splice that is wrapped with a thong. The sides of the frame are braced apart with three wood cross-bars mortised into the frame. The space for the foot between the foremost bar and the next one back is netted using hide thongs. Fore and aft of those bars is finer and more closely spaced meshing made with thinner thongs, or 'babiche'. Additional thongs attached at the centreline hold sets of ... blue beads. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/65: MacFarlane collected two pairs of snowshoes. They are strikingly similar to snowshoes used by Gwich'in, and may have been copied or traded by the Inuvialuit.

List in accession file indicates collection was purchased by McLean in Sitka in 1884 and includes "3. Bows and 8 arrows complete from Yakutat" which seems to refer to E75453 - 5.From card: "75454 (Tlingit) and 75455 (Tinne) [i.e. Athabaskan] illus. in USNM AR, 1888, Pl. 26, figs. 109, 155; p. 286. [Publication caption identifies bow 75455 as willow bow, with device for receiving the blow of the string. Tinne Indians, interior of Alaska.] #75455 - Bow illus. in Smithsonian Rept, 1893; Pl. 64, fig. 2; p. 679." Illustration caption identifies as "Bow, of willow; oval in section, tapering toward the ends slightly, double curve. Chief characteristic is a piece of wood on the inside of the grip, to catch the blow of the string in relaxing. The bowstring is a tough one of rawhide. Length, 4 feet 5 inches. Kutchin, Inland Alaska."