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The hat is green and rectangular, decorated with silver applique and metal-mirrored discs. The upper sides of the hat are indented and edged with gold fabric. The hat is decorated with silver designs, some outlined in pink. Also covering the hat are metal discs with mirrored centres. The bottom of the hat has a white border with brassl discs and is edged with purple. There are two white ties knotted together. The back of the hat has a wire design on back and is stiffened with cardboard. The front has a narrow segment that folds out when the hat is worn. In the centre of the segment is a white circle with a red border surrounded by white fur. In the centre of the circle is an applique blue and pink bird with green leaves. On either side of the centre circle there are similar bird circles, not visible when the narrow segment lies flat.
Woman's parka made of brown fur, with a lighter fur lined hood and delta trim around the bottom of the coat and arms. The delta trim is used at the seam between the dropped shoulder and the sleeve as well as at the bottom edge of the coat and sleeve. The trim around the dropped shoulders is made up of thin strips of red, green and blue cotton fabric and yellow ricrac sewn in a linear design. The trim around the cuff of the sleeves is a band of white fur. The trim around the bottom of the coat is white fur with two brown facing triangles. There is a thin red band above the triangles, a thin green band below and a thicker band of red along the bottom of the white trim. There are long fur fringes under the trim on the shoulders and under the hood on the front and back. The skin side of the fringes is dyed red.
The bag is made of seven pieces of caribou skin and stitched together with sinew. Four long narrow pieces of skin are stitched together to form the rounded bottom and sides of the bag. Three thin bands are sewn around the opening of the bag.
Bow made of a segment of cylindrical hardwood that tapers towards the ends and a length of hide string tied at the ends. The wood is wrapped in bark fibre (?) at either end on the inside of the hide wrapping, and this fibre is coated in black tar resin.
Bow composed of a cylindrical segment of wood that tapers slightly towards the rounded ends where a length of twisted skin thong is tied at a notch in the wood.
Sword (a) with leather scabbard (b). The sword handle is covered in red and black leather with a band of red leather and plant fibre weaving in a diagonal linear design, and a metal finial. The sword blade has three indented lines running lengthwise from near the blade base to nearly halfway down the blade. The scabbard is composed of several bands of alternating red and black leather, a section of mottled red and brown leather stamped with several bands of geometric pattern, another section of alternating red and black bands, and a black laterh tip stamped with linear designs.
Pouch (part a) made of cloth is relatively square with a very long flap, has a long blue band running along one side, and has a long metal piece engraved with 'MAY 6 1851' attached by a skin strip. Forty nine (parts b-xx) wooden sticks, all of uniform size, some of which are inlaid with abalone shells of different designs: one stick (part b) has two circular abalone shell inlays near the centre; a second stick (part c) has a triangular abalone shell inlay near the centre; a third stick (part d) has one circular abalone shell inlay near the centre; a fourth stick (part e) has a trapezoid-shaped abalone shell inlay near one end; seventeen sticks (parts f-v) are plain; and twenty-eight sticks (parts w-xx) appear to have various decorative lines.
The moccasins (part a-b) are white skin with a multicoloured beadwork panel on the top. Each moccasin appears to be made from one piece of skin with a seam at the heel and gathered at the toe, secured under the beadwork panel. The panel motif is a red, green and white flower with a stem and two yellow and brown leaves, outlined in black on a pink background. There are also three borders; black-white, green and pink. The beadwork in done on a black fabric of which a half circle is visible at the top of the panel. A black trim with beadwork (part c). The black fabric is edged along three sides with gray fabric and with brown fur along the fourth. Next to the gray edges are multicoloured, beaded borders that mimic the borders around the panel on the moccasins. There is a pink border, a green, a black-white and another pink border that loops seven times. A black trim with beadwork (part d). Part d is the same as part c, but without the fur edging.
The moccasins (part a-b) are brown and white with multicoloured beadwork on the tongue and around the heel. The sole and sides are made from the brown skin. The white skin is sewn on top of the brown over the heel area and reaching halfway down each side. The tongue is also made of white skin. There are thin pink and green piping separating the white tongue from the brown toe. The upper edge of the tongue is lined with purple beads. The beadwork on the tongue shows three spiral blue flowers outlined in red with two green leaves and a purple stem. The beadwork on the heel is also a floral pattern with red and blue spiral flowers, green leaves and purple branches.
The moccasins are brown with multicoloured beadwork on the tongue insert. The moccasins are made from two pieces of skin. One piece forms the sole and sides with a single seam on each heel. The other piece forms the inset tongue. The tongue piece is decorated with multicoloured beads in a 'V' pattern with a scalloped top edge. There is light brown stitching around the top of the tongue and the opening for the foot.