FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1894; PL. 16; P. 394. MARKED PRIVATE." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "SNOW-SHOES.--SQUARE FRAMES, POINTED ENDS, SHARPLY CURVED UP IN FRONT. TOE AND HEEL NETTING OF FINE LINE, CUT FROM PREPARED DEERSKINS, CALLED BABICHE, ROVE THROUGH FRAMES. FOOT NETTING COARSER AND WOUND AROUND FRAMES. FRAMES PAINTED BLACK AND GREEN AND DECORATED WITH TUFTS OF COLORED WORSTED ON OUTSIDE. LENGTH, 29 INS. GREATEST BREADTH, 8 1/2 INS. FORT SIMPSON, MACKENZIE RIVER, BRITISH AMERICA, 1868. 5,647. COLLECTED BY B. R. ROSS. USED BY HUDSON BAY COMPANY'S VOYAGEURS OF MACKENZIE RIVER DISTRICT."

FROM CARD: "1 COIL. FOR REINDEER SLED--MADE OF ANIMAL FIBRE, BRAIDED, IN SIX PIECES. WIDTH, 1 1/4", LENGTH, 2' 6". FORT SIMPSON ARCTIC OCEAN. *DOUBLE ENTRY UNDER CAT. #595."

From card: "Procured between the years 1850 - 1860. One piece of tanned skin sewed with sinew at center front and back. Lighter piece of white deerskin with floral design in green, red, and pink yarn. Colored quilled plaiting in two colors at border of top piece."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 as Gwichi'in type. Because E328769 is identified as part of this clothing set as well on cards for E328766 - 8, it has also been listed as possibly Gwich'in.

IDENTIFIED AS KUTCHIN TYPE BY JUDY THOMPSON, WESTERN SUBARCTIC CURATOR AT THE CANADIAN MUSEUM OF CIVILIZATION, 1999. FROM CARD: "COVERS ENTIRE HEAD EXCEPT FACE; SOFT TEXTURE; QUILLED BAND DESIGNS. BUCKSKIN FRINGED WITH QUILLED WRAPPINGS. SEED ORNAMENTS ATTACHED TO FRINGE; 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, SILVER WILLOW SEEDS, 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 and hood are decorated with folded quills ...."

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 ...."

FROM CARD: "OF THE DOG RIB INDIANS (ATHAPASCAN FAMILY) MADE OF FINELY CUT CARIBOU SKIN OR BABICHE. THE MESH IS THE SAME AS THAT ON INDIAN WALLETS IN MEXICO ANDCENTRAL AMERICA. BORDER, A STRIP OF CARIBOU SKIN. ORNAMENTATION, IN FLANNEL BANDS AND CUT FRINGES. THEY ARE MADE OPEN TO ALLOW THE SNOW TO PASS THROUGH. THE CARRYING STRAP PASSES THROUGH LOOPS ON THE BORDER. *DOUBLE ENTRY UNDER CAT. #527."

FROM CARD: "*DOUBLE ENTRY UNDER CAT. #569. "SQUARE FRAME; POINTED ENDS, SHARPLY CURVED UP IN FRONT. NETTING CLOSE & FINE, MADE OF FINE LINE, CUT FROM PREPARED DEERSKINS CALLED BABICHE; THE FOOT NETTING BEING WRAPPED AROUND FRAME AND COARSER THAN THE REST. ORNAMENTED W/ TUFTS OF WORSTED ON OUTSIDE OF FRAME. CHIPPEWAYAN MODEL, USED BY ESKIMO OF ARCTIC CST."

IDENTIFIED AS KUTCHIN TYPE BY JUDY THOMPSON, WESTERN SUBARCTIC CURATOR AT THE CANADIAN MUSEUM OF CIVILIZATION, 1999. FROM CARD: "BEADED, QUILLED, AND FRINGED SINEW SEWN. PART OF COSTUME INCLUDING NOS. 328766-69. BEAUTIFUL; WHITE COLOR. ILLUS. IN THE FAR NORTH CATALOG, NAT. GALL. OF ART, 1973, P. 148 [attributed as Kutchin in publication]." MATERIALS: WHITE CARIBOU HIDE, PORCUPINE QUILLS, SILVER WILLOW SEEDS, 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 ...."

FROM CARD: "A PIECE OF FLINT. IGNITES. "A PIECE OF PIGRITES. IGNITES. STRIKE-A-LIGHT--SECTION OF A CYLINDRICAL NODULE OF IRON PYRITES, AGAINST WHICH THE PIECE OF BLACK CHERT IS STRUCK, PRODUCING A SPARK TO BE RECEIVED UPON TINDER. DI. OF NODULE, 2", L. OF CHERT STRIKER, 3". ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; FIG. 44B, P. 573; ALSO IN PROCEEDINGS, USNM, VOL. 73, ART. 14; FIG. 40B; P. 56."

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1902; PL. 129; P. 548. *DOUBLE ENTRY UNDER CAT. #636."