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/182 , retrieved 12-27-2019: A pair of man's boots. The uppers are made of hide from the legs of caribou with light and dark pieces running down the leg to make decorative stripes. A pointed sole has close pleating around the front of the foot and the heel. A pointed vamp made up of strips of dehaired dark and light pieces of seal hide joins the uppers to the soles. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/23: Warm, dry footwear is essential for survival in the Arctic. The MacFarlane Collection includes examples of knee-length boots known as kamaks, and ankle high moccasin-type footwear. These garments have been skillfully made, and often were decorated by piecing together contrasting pieces of skin. The soles are crimped along the front edges to make the shape conform to the foot.

Per card, these are black and white wolverine hide.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/181 , retrieved 2-7-2020: A pair of mittens; not further described or analyzed on the website. General information on mittens here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/41: Mittens with separate thumbs were used for keeping the hands warm in winter. They usually have the hair on the outside at the back of the mitten, which can be held against one's face to keep it warm. The mittens usually are quite short, as the fur trim on the sleeves of parkas protected the exposed wrist.

FROM CARD: "SOME IRON & SOME BONE. FISH-ARROWS (10)--BARBED IVORY HEADS; ONE BLUNT, QUADRILOBATE, DRIVEN INTO LIGHT CEDAR SHAFTS; HEADS AND FEATHERS SECURED BY SIEZINGS OF FINE SINEW. LENGTH: SHAFTS, 20 3/4 TO 25 3/4", HEADS, 2 TO 7". ARROW ILLUS. IN SMITHSONIAN REPT 1893; PL. 55, FIG. 5; P. 679." DOUBLE ENTRY UNDER CAT. #629.

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/180 , retrieved 12-27-2019: Girl's caribou skin parka.

FROM CARD: "DOUBLE ENTRY UNDER CAT. #598."

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/179 , retrieved 12-27-2019: A pair of men's boots made from seal hide. The pointed soles have close pleating around the front of the foot and the heel. Each boot has a pointed vamp made up dehaired dark seal hide that joins the sole to the upper section, which is made of seal hide with the hair left on. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/23: Warm, dry footwear is essential for survival in the Arctic. The MacFarlane Collection includes examples of knee-length boots known as kamaks, and ankle high moccasin-type footwear. These garments have been skillfully made, and often were decorated by piecing together contrasting pieces of skin. The soles are crimped along the front edges to make the shape conform to the foot.

Rectangular box; no top/lid present. Card indicates this is Inuit made.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/178 , retrieved 2-11-2020: A box made from wood. The sides and bottom are joined to the end pieces by small wooden pegs inserted through drilled holes. The end pieces have been carved to produce a slight outward curvature. There is no top with this box, although grooves cut into the upper edges of the side pieces for holding a top indicate that it once had one, and there is remnant of a hide thong for securing a lid in a hole drilled through one of the side pieces.This item is identified in the Smithsonian Institution's catalogue as a packing box. More information available here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/12: The MacFarlane collection contains a variety of wooden boxes. Boxes carved from single pieces of wood, and boxes with sides made from bent pieces of wood with bottoms pegged to them, are traditional Inuvialuit forms that were used for storing tools and other objects. Boxes with separate pieces for each side, bottom and top identified in the Smithsonian Institution's artifact catalogue as 'Packing Box Made by Esquimaux' may have been commissioned by MacFarlane for packing artifacts that were sent to the Smithsonian.

FROM CARD: "INVENTORIED 1976."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/177 , retrieved 12-10-2019: A pair of mittens made from polar bear hide with the fur left on. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/41: Mittens with separate thumbs were used for keeping the hands warm in winter. They usually have the hair on the outside at the back of the mitten, which can be held against one's face to keep it warm. The mittens usually are quite short, as the fur trim on the sleeves of parkas protected the exposed wrist.

FROM CARD: "3 PIECES EACH. *DOUBLE ENTRY UNDER CAT. #621. OLD CAT BOOK SAYS 3 SPEC 1866 ENT. 621 ENT 1862. INVENTORIED 1981.

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN PROCEEDINGS, USNM, VOL. 60; P1. 11, NO. 3; P. 48 (WASHINGTON).