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IDENTIFIED AS KUTCHIN TYPE BY JUDY THOMPSON, WESTERN SUBARCTIC CURATOR AT THE CANADIAN MUSEUM OF CIVILIZATION, 1999. FROM CARD: "QUILLED ORNAMENTAL BANDS AT SIDES; SINEW SEWN. WHITE COLOR. ILLUS. IN THE FAR NORTH CATALOG, NAT. GALL. OF ART, 1973, P. 149 [attributed as Kutchin in publication]. PART OF COSTUME, CAT. NOS. 328766-9." MATERIALS: WHITE CARIBOU HIDE, PORCUPINE QUILLS, 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 ...."