From card: "Two head skins of a mallard duck, bill attached. The top has open beadwork design, a star [the sun?] and two birds. Undoubtedly commercial trade article."

From card: "Soft soled; beadwork floral design on red strouding over the instep; lined in flannel. Correct descriptions should be: People: Northeast Indians; Locality: Northeast Woodlands - W. Sturtevant Curator, n. Amer. Ethn. (4/85)".

Decoration includes floral quillwork.

From card: "Length of fringe approx. 35". Designs in black, cerise, purple, yellow, green, white. See Barbeau, "Assomption Sash", Bull. 93. National Museum of Canada. Stolen and returned by the F.B.I. during 1965."

From card: "This garment is worn around the neck and hangs down in front. it is beaded in its entirety, the designs being floral, the background is white with the exception of one panel which is of black cloth. At the bottom are green yarn tassels. Correct descriptions should be: People: Northeast Indians; Locality: Northeast Woodlands - W. Sturtevant Curator, N. A. Ethn. 4/85".

THIS OBJECT ORIGINALLY CATALOGUED AS FROM GLACIER HOUSE, BRITISH COLUMBIA. HOWEVER, "NIAGRA" [I.E. NIAGARA] IS WRITTEN ON ARTIFACT AND OBJECT APPEARS TO BE STYLISTICALLY NORTHEAST INDIAN/GREAT LAKES, RATHER THAN NORTHWEST COAST. BOX HAS A FLORAL DESIGN WORKED IN QUILLS ON BARK LID.

From card: "Oak frame with two braces, pointed toe and heel, toe curved up. Foot netting of finely woven prepared buckskin or babiche, fastened over braces and frames, protected from chafing by pieces of cloth, heel and toe netting of finer babiche rove through the frame. Sides of frame ornamented with tufts of red flannel. Deerskin strips for fastening toe part to the boot."These snowshoes resemble a pair illustrated in Figure 240d, after p. 138 in Catlin, George. Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs and Conditions of North American Indians: Volume II, 1841. Catlin identifies them as Sioux.See U.S. National Museum Annual Report for 1894, p. 405, where these snowshoes are described and identified as a Cree type.