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/48 , retrieved 12-19-2019: A belt fastener made from antler. Two holes have been drilled through the fastener for attaching to one end of a belt. One surface has been decorated with a series of engraved lines. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/6: Belts were worn around the waist outside the parka. They were commonly made from a strip of hide with a loop or slit at one end and a fastener, sometimes called a buckle or clasp, at the other end that was passed through the loop. Fasteners typically were made from bone, antler or ivory, but brass buttons became common in later periods. Teeth, hooves and carved items often were attached to belts, and may have served as charms to ensure success in hunting, or to ward off evil spirits or disease.

SI ARCHIVE DISTRIBUTION DOCUMENTS LIST THIS CATALOG NUMBER ON "DISTRIBUTION LIST #6" IN 1867 WITHOUT ANY MENTION OF WHERE IT WAS SENT.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/47 , retrieved 1-3-2020: Crooked knife with an iron blade attached to an antler handle with two iron rivets. The bottom edge of the handle has a series of indentations to improve the grip. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/18: Crooked knives were used for shaping wood, bone and antler. The Inuvialuit style of crooked knife has a small blade attached near the end of a curved handle. The knife is held with the fingers of one hand on the underside of the handle, and the thumb positioned on top of the blade in an indentation in the handle. The craftsman rests the underside of the blade against the object being worked, and draws the knife towards the body while using the thumb on the hand holding the tool to check the depth of the cut.

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/46 , retrieved 1-24-2020: Saw with an iron blade and a handle made of antler. The blade has has teeth that are only slightly raised along the cutting edge. The blade has been inserted into a slot cut into one edge of the handle. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/49: Saws for cutting wood, bone, antler and ivory had thin metal blades attached to bone handles. Shallow notches in the saw blades were made by striking the edge with the thicker blade of a knife.

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM REPT 1894, FIG. 252, P. 562." Identified in publication: "... model of a sled from Anderson River consisting of high solid runners and crossbars. The runners have a long bevel in front and a short one in the rear, and are sawed off at the ends. There are three crossbars, broad in the middle and chamfered at the ends for the lashing. Near the upper border of the runners holes are gouged through the wood as long as the end of the crosspiece is wide. A double lashing passes over the end and through these holes so as to give a double bearing or brace. This is a very common method of attachment among the ... [Inuit]. In the model the lashing is done with rawhide and sinew twine. This example reproduces with considerable faithfulness the construction of the aboriginal types. The shoeing on the bottom of the runners is fastened on with pegs of wood. Length, 12 inches."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/45 , retrieved 12-17-2019: Model of a qamutik sled made from wood. The bottom edges of the runners are cut aslant at the front and back. Three crosspieces are attached to the tops of the runners by sinew and hide lashings that loop over each end where they project beyond the runners, pass through a corresponding slot in the runner, and then loop over the crosspiece again just inside the runners. Grooves cut through the runners near each end would have been used for tying down cargo carried on the sled. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/72: The MacFarlane Collection contains small models of several types of sleds used by Inuvialuit for travelling on snow-covered ground. These models may have been commissioned since full-size sleds would have been difficult to ship the the Smithsonian Institution.

As of 2010, this object consists of small sinew cable-backed bow (which is broken.)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/44 , retrieved 2-6-2020: Model of a recurve bow with sinew backing. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/10: The MacFarlane Collection contains accurate models of bows and arrows. Both simple and recurve bows are included. Simple bows curve in an arc from one end to another when they are strung, and recurve bows are constructed so that the centre of the strung bow curves towards the archer then bends away at each end. The recurve bows and several of the simple bows have sinew backing. Models of traditional tools were commonly made by Inuvialuit for trade with Europeans.Listed on page 116 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "The Spindle".

FROM CARD: "2 PIECES... WALRUS IVORY TUBE, THROUGH WHICH ARE RUN STRIPS OF FOLDED RAWHIDE IN WHICH NEEDLES ARE KEPT. THE TUBES ARE SET WITH BLUE BEADS."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/43 , retrieved 12-30-2019: Needle case, strap and belt hook. The needle case is a hollow ivory tube with eight split beads embedded in shallow drilled holes and cemented in place. One end of a hide strap passes through the needle case and is attached to a cap that seals that end of the needle case when it is drawn tight. The cap has a split blue bead embedded in it. The strap that passes through the case is doubled back on itself and knotted to form a small loop at the midpoint, and the other end 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 is a flattened piece of ivory with a slit along the centreline extending half its length at the end opposite from where it is attached to the strap. Converging on this slit are two other, shorter, slits cut at slight angles to the central slit that terminate at holes drilled through the piece, probably to prevent them from splitting. Two other holes drilled closer to the end are probably decorative. 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 stra

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/42 , retrieved 2-10-2020: Fish lure with an antler shank and an iron hook. The shank has a pair of drilled holes at its narrow end for attaching to a fishing line, and what appears to be a bent nail used as a hook inserted through a hole drilled at the other end. The edges of the shank are serrated, a feature that helped in tying a piece of fish skin bait or a weight to the lure. Two split glass beads have been set into the edges near the hook, in imitation of a fish. The shank has been decorated on both faces with engraved lines. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/21: Fishing tackle was used for catching fish in rivers and streams during the open water season, and for jigging through holes chiseled through ice in winter and spring. Fishing tackle in the MacFarlane Collection includes fishing rods (iqaluksiun) with lines (ipiutaq) made from baleen, and bone and antler lures (niksik) with iron hooks. Less commonly, fishhooks were made from wood.

FROM CARD: "FORESHAFT OF SEAL DART WITH 4 SPEAR POINTS. 1 ILLUS. IN PROCEEDINGS, USNM, VOL. 60; PL. 25, NO. 6; P. 48; ALSO PL. 25, NO. 11."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/41 , retrieved 1-27-2020: [Three] harpoon heads, a foreshaft and a foreshaft socket. The harpoon heads are made of antler. One has a bone or ivory blade inserted into a slot at one end and secured with a bone rivet. The other two have barbed iron blades held in slots by iron rivets. The body of one of the harpoon heads has a sharp barb on each side. Each has a line hole running though the body in the same plane as the blade, and a single spur. The foreshaft is a long, slender and slightly curved rod made of ivory. One end is slightly square and fits snugly into the socket piece. The other end tapers to a rounded point and fits into sockets at the bases of each of the harpoon heads. The socket piece is made of ivory. It has a wedge-shaped base that would have been inserted into a shaft made of wood and secured with lashing of some type. The other end has a drilled hole for receiving one end of the foreshaft. 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.

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/40 , retrieved 12-19-2019: Model of child's pants; object is not further analyzed or described on site.

SI ARCHIVE DISTRIBUTION DOCUMENTS LIST THIS CATALOG NUMBER ON "DISTRIBUTION LIST #6" IN 1867 WITHOUT ANY MENTION OF WHERE IT WAS SENT.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/38 , retrieved 1-3-2020: Graver with an iron blade set into a handle made from antler or bone. The blade has been sharpened along one edge and at the tip. The handle consists of two pieces of antler or bone with matching grooves at one end that hold the blade. Parts of the handle pieces near the blade have been cut away, leaving a slight step at that end. The two parts of the handle are held together with a hide thong wrapping. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/27: Gravers with iron tips held in bone and antler shafts were used for engraving designs on ivory, bone antler and wood.