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/4 , retrieved 12-19-2019: A pair of child's ankle high shoes or overshoes meant to be worn over pants with attached feet. The sole is joined to the ankle section by a pointed vamp made of dark skin. The sole is pleated around the toes and at the back of the heel.

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/3 , retrieved 12-31-2019: Pipe with a brass bowl attached to a stem by a post fashioned from iron. The bowl has a slight concavity at the top, with a hole that continues through the post to the stem. Two pieces of copper are set into shallow holes in the side of the bowl. The pipe stem is in two longitudinal sections that have been bound together with a thin strip of hide, which also fastens the bowl to the stem. 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.

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/2 , retrieved 1-27-2020: Bow drill set consisting of a bow and spindle. The bow has been fashioned from a rib. A thong made from twisted sinew is attached through a hole drilled at one end of the bow; at the other end a drilled hole has broken, and the lashing has been tied around the rib. The spindle has a wood shaft and an iron bit that is inserted into a slice cut into one end and held in place with a sinew lashing. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/20: The bow drills in the MacFarlane Collection were used for boring holes into wood, antler, bone and ivory. The drill spindle (shaft) has a bit at one end, and the other end is shaped to fit into a bearing that is held between the teeth. The spindle is rotated by wrapping a slack thong attached at each end of a drill bow around it, and moving the bow back and forth. Ancestral Inuvialuit also used another type of bow drill for starting fires.

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/1 , retrieved 1-3-2020: Graver with an iron blade set into a handle made from antler. The blade has been sharpened along one edge and at the tip. The handle consists of two pieces of antler 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, and several notches have been cut into the outer edges of each piece. The two parts of the handle are secured by a wrapping of braided sinew that is held in position by the notches. 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.

This game is described on p. 243 - 244 of "Games of the North American Indians" by Stewart Culin, BAE 24th Annual Report. Culin identifies it there as stick game. Gambling sticks are stored in an El Roi-Tan cigar box.

The object name for catalog numbers e20736-20742 was previously recorded as: "Carving Wooden Dish Frog". This is due to the fact that the objects within this range share a single catalog card, where the description (carving wooden dish frog) only corresponds to the first object (e20734) in the series. When the catalog information was entered into the database, the object name was recorded as the same for each, despite the fact that each catalog number is representative of different, separate objects. At some point, a new catalog card was created for E20742. The other records were updated when digital images were attached to the catalog records.