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).

FROM CARD: "*DOUBLE ENTRY UNDER CAT. #586. SECTION ILLUS. IN S.I. REPT. 1884, P1.6, FIG. 14, P. 316."

FROM CARD: "PIECE OF WOOD & STICK & REST. FIRE-DRILL--LOWER PART A BILLET OF SEMI-DECAYED WOOD, WITH A NUMBER OF FIRE HOLES DRILLED ALONG A FURROW, SO THAT THE DUST THEY COLLECT FALLS INTO THE NEXT HOLE AND IGNITES. THIS ARRANGEMENT ACCOMPLISHES THE SAME RESULT AS THE LATERAL FURROW IN THE INDIAN FIRE-DRILL. LENGTH, 12 INCHES. #1963. #1963-ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; FIG. 29, P. 560; AND IN PROCEEDINGS, USNM, VOL. 73, ART. 14; FIG. 27; P. 40. *DOUBLE ENTRY UNDER CAT. #624."

FROM CARD: "SQUARE, FRAME POINTED END, SHARPLY CURVED UP IN FRONT; NETTING MADE OF FINE LINE, CUT FROM PREPARED DEERSKINS, CALLED BABICHE; FOOT NETTING WRAPPED AROUND FRAME; THE REST IS ROVE THROUGH IT; WOOD-WORK PAINTED AND ORNAMENTED WITH TUFTS OF WORSTED ON THE OUTSIDE. CHIPPEWAYAN MODEL, USED BY ESKIMO OF ARCTIC COAST AND BY HUDSON BAY CO.'S VOYAGEURS. *DOUBLE ENTRY UNDER CAT. #530."

FROM CARD: "1855 & 1856 ILLUS.: FIG. 2.22, PP. 46 + 47 IN NORTHERN ATHAPASKAN ART BY KATE DUNCAN, UNIV. OF WASHINGTON PRESS, 1989. IDENTIFIED THERE AS SUMMER TUNIC AND MOCCASIN TROUSERS, LOUCHEUX, CARIBOU HIDE, RED AND WHITE OPAQUE BUGLE BEADS SEWN WITH SINEW, RED OCHRE."

FROM CARD: "*DOUBLE ENTRY UNDER CAT. #571. SMALL-. ROUND FRAME; ROUND TOE; SLIGHTLY CURVED UP; LONG, BROAD HEEL, TERMINATING IN SHORT, SHARP POINT. TOE AND HEEL NETTING CLOSE & FINE, OF LINE CUT FROM PREPARED DEERSKINS, CALLED BABICHE; FOOT NETTING COARSER AND MORE OPEN. PAINTED & ORNAMENTED WITH BEADS."Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=7, retrieved 8-24-2012: Snowshoes, Gwich'in Athabascan. From discussion with Phillip Arrow, Trimble Gilbert, Eliza Jones and Judy Woods at the National Museum of Natural History and National Museum of the American Indian, 5/17/2004-5/21/2004. Also participating: Aron Crowell (NMNH), Kate Duncan (Arizona State University) and Suzi Jones (AMHA). Trimble Gilbert, Gwich'in, and Eliza Jones, Koyukon, identify these as hunting or walking snowshoes.

FROM CARD: "3 PIECES EACH. FIRE DRILL--LOWER PIECE OF PINE WOOD WITH SMALL FIRE-CAVITIES AND FURROWS ON EITHER EDGE. THERE IS A MASS OF CEMENT AT ONE END. #1978- FROM MACKENZIE R. - ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; FIG. 28, P. 560; AND PROCEEDINGS, USNM, VOL. 73, ART. 14; FIG. 26; P. 40."

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 ...."