FROM CARD: "*DOUBLE ENTRY UNDER CAT. #572."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=8, retrieved 8-26-2012: Mittens, 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). Eliza Jones, Koyukon, identifies the mittens as caribou or moosehide; fringed with caribou skin; fringe partly wrapped with quills; decorated with ocher on the cuffs and seams. She and Trimble Gilbert, Gwich'in, note that the mittens are unlined, and that the bead and fringes are not practical for working, so that these are probably dance mittens.

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: "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: "SAME SPECIMEN ENTERED AS CATALOG NO. 2,012."

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."

FROM CARD: "*DOUBLE ENTRY UNDER CAT. #625."

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: "ILLUS.: THE SPIRIT SINGS. CATALOGUE, GLENBOW-ALBERTA INST., 1987, #A73, P. 127."1 ARROW LENT TO PRINCE OF WALES NORTHERN HERITAGE CENTER, JUNE, 1992. LOAN GLENBOW NOV 13 1987. LOAN RETURNED NO 25 1988. LOAN RETURNED: DEC 21 1992."Note re photos: Neg. # 2003-5856 is detail shot of barbed steel head of 1 arrow.

FROM CARD: "*DOUBLE ENTRY UNDER CAT. #583."