FROM CARD: "ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 5, ARCTIC, PG. 353, FIG. 6B. BANDS OF CLIPPED HAIR DECORATE TOP PORTION OF THE BAG; THE THONG HAS 2 BLUE BEADS & A PIECE OF FUR AT THE END. INVENTORIED 1977." Handbook photo caption further identifies this as a decorated wolverine skin bag used to carry tobacco, pipe, flint, steel and tinder.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/13 , retrieved 2-10-2020. General information on bags is available here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/45: Traditional Inuvialuit clothing had no pockets. Instead, small bags or pouches were used for carrying items such as sewing implements, tobacco, and tinder, flint and steel for making fire. These bags often were exquisitely made by piecing together contrasting pieces of skin and decorating them with fringes and beads.

This object is listed 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/12 , retrieved 1-8-2020; only photos of the object are at the entry, the object is not described.

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/11 , retrieved 1-17-2020: A pouch made with caribou skin and decorated with snippets of red wool. A fringe of skin strips around the bottom of the bag shows traces of staining with red ochre. A single large blue bead adorns a hide tie. Pouches of this type were commonly used to hold tobacco. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/45: Traditional Inuvialuit clothing had no pockets. Instead, small bags or pouches were used for carrying items such as sewing implements, tobacco, and tinder, flint and steel for making fire. These bags often were exquisitely made by piecing together contrasting pieces of skin and decorating them with fringes and beads. Pouches like the one shown here typically were used to hold tobacco.

From Card: "ILLUS. HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 5, ARCTIC, PG. 353, FIG. 5. ...STEM MADE OF 2 PIECES OF CARVED WOOD DECORATIVELY BOUND TOGETHER WITH SINEW STRUNG WITH BLUE BEADS. LEAD BOWL HAS STANDING FIGURE WITH BLUE BEADS INSET AS EYES. CARVED BONE TAMPER, ATTACHED. LOAN GLENBOW NOV 13 1987. LOAN RETURNED NOV 25 1988. ILLUS.: THE SPIRIT SINGS. CATALOGUE, GLENBOW-ALBERTA INST., 1987, #A92, P.130."Note re photos: Neg. # 2003-5853 is right profile view. Neg. # 2003-5852 is left profile view, but tilted a bit to show bowl opening.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/10 , retrieved 12-31-2019: Pipe with a bowl made of lead and a stem made of wood. The bowl has a standing figure with blue beads inset as eyes. The rims of the bowl and of a hole that continues through a post to the stem are both encircled with copper. The pipe stem is in two longitudinal sections that have been bound together with twisted sinew held in groove cut into the stem in a spiral manner. A separate strand of sinew is used to attach blue beads along the upper side of the pipe stem. A bone pick decorated with a series of indentations along part of each edge is attached to the pipe with a strand of braided sinew. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/2: Inuvialuit first obtained pipes and tobacco in the 1800s through indigenous trade networks that stretched through Alaska and as far as Siberia. The MacFarlane Collection includes twenty pipes of this northern style. The bowls are made from metal, wood or stone, and with one exception the pipes have curved wooden stems split along their length and held together with a skin or sinew wrapping. Commonly a pick used for tamping tobacco and cleaning the bowl is attached to the pipe.

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.

FROM CARD: "LABEL: "WOMAN'S KNIFE (ULU).--BLADE OF IRON, BELL-SHAPED; THE UPPER MARGIN RIVETED TO TWO STEMS OF ANTLER, THE LATTER PASSING THROUGH MORTISES IN THE HANDLE OR GRIP. THIS SPECIMEN RESEMBLES VERY CLOSELY THE MODERN CHOPPER KNIFE. WIDTH OF BLADE 4 1/2"." ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1890; PL. 56, FIG. 1; P. 416."The ulu handle had become separated from the blade. The blade was part of ET14501, but has now been reunited with the handle.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/8 , retrieved 1-3-2020: note: only the knife handle was documented on this website: Handle for an ulu made from bone or antler. Two holes have been drilled through the handle for attaching tangs that in turn would have been connected to a blade. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/58: An ulu is a knife with a crescent-shaped blade attached to a handle made of wood, bone or antler. The design of an ulu ensures that the cutting force is centred more over the middle of the blade than with an ordinary knife. Ulus are used for skinning animals, scraping skins, cutting hides when sewing as well as for other household tasks. They are sometimes called 'women's knives' since they usually are associated with women's tasks.Listed on page 36 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Western Eskimo".

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/7 , retrieved 1-3-2020: Crooked knife with an iron blade attached to an antler handle with two iron rivets. One face of the handle where it is joined to the blade is curved and has an indentation to provide a grip for the thumb when held in the right hand. A hide thong has been wrapped around the handle 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.

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1897; FIG. 8; P. 736."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/6 , retrieved 12-10-2019: Crooked knife. This item was identified by Roderick MacFarlane as a Hudson's Bay Company voyaguer's knife. The long, curved iron blade and the shape of the wooden handle is typical of crooked knives made and used by French Canadian and Métis voyaguers hired by the HBC to transport supplies to trading posts and to bring fur from the trading posts to warehouses in the south. It is not known if MacFarlane acquired this item from a voyageur, or from an Inuvialuk who obtained it from one of the voyageurs who worked for the HBC. 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/5 , retrieved 1-3-2020: Harpoon head and foreshaft. The head is made from ivory. It has a spur at one end, a blade slot at the other end, and a line hole that passes through the head in the same plane as the blade slot. A trapezoidal-shaped iron blade is held in the slot by an iron rivet. The relatively short foreshaft is made of bone. It is blunt at the end that was meant to be inserted into the socket of the harpoon head, and pointed at the other end, where it would have been inserted into a socket piece. Seemingly, the foreshaft was not meant to swivel in the foreshaft, and may have been made for a thowing harpoon. A length of babiche is looped several times through the line hole of the harpoon head, and is attached to a hide thong that is in turn attached to the foreshaft. These items were originally identified in the Smithsonian Institution's catalogue as parts of a 'fish spear', but the size and style of the harpoon head is consistent with harpoon heads used for hunting sea mammals. 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.

FROM CARD: "TAIL OF MUSK OX. *DOUBLE ENTRY UNDER CAT. #582."