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Red knitted head piece with four whole ermine skins and one piece of abalone shell. The ermine skins are sewn to the upper edge of the headdress. The rectangular piece of abalone is sewn to the front.
Brown sandals (part a-b) with thick and thin straps. There is one thick strap across the sole. There are four thin straps, two from each side of the sole, that are woven together near the front of the sole to form a toe thong. There is an extra layer to the bottom back of the sole, giving the sandal a slight heel. The top of the sole has an indented border with small slits through which material is threaded to bind the sandal together.
Very long skin bag with quill wrapping. Plain along the top with a red border that has red raffia. Two quill designs on the bottom with long strips of hide for the fringe as well as tin cones with red raffia within along one side. One side of the upper portion has a design that consists of a purple- and yellow- outlined bow-tie shape with an hour glass shape along the middle on a red background. The other side of the upper portion has a design that consists of four quadrants of red, purple, and white squares. The lower portion has a design on both sides that consists of a pair of vertical orange and black rectangles on a dark red background.
Deer hide fringed and beaded around the edge of the bag. Drawstring is also buckskin. Different beading is on each side. One side has a central concentric circle of dark blue, yellow, red, and light blue from which a two-curved hook extends from the top, the bottom, and both sides with the top and the bottom extending from a yellow line bordered by dark blue dots and red hooks while the side hooks are all dark blue. The other side has a design that consist of a pair of yellow, dark blue, and red tear drop shapes bordered by light blue at the bottom with an inverted dark blue v-line dangling below each. Above, there is a curvi-linear horizontal red line, a vertical yellow line bordered by light blue dots, and a dark blue two-curved hook at the top.
The folded hat is pink and blue, rectangular and decorated with appliqué and metal-mirrored discs. The hat flares at the top, narrows at the base and folds inwards on both sides. On the front the upper part is blue, the lower part is pink. One the blue part there is a large white circle with an embroidered bird in the centre. Surrounding the circle are tuffs of white rabbit fur. Around the circle are motifs in silver thread. Inside the folded sides are large white circles with goldfish surrounded with tuffs of white rabbit fur. On the back are motifs in silver thread on a pink background. Along the bottom of the hat is a silver border with brass discs, edged with purple with traces of gold. Covering the entire surface of the hat are metal discs with mirrored centres. On the inside of the hat is ecru lining, stiffened with cardboard. Two ecru ties are attached.
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.