Note that 2186 is mentioned as being used in an exhibit in Berlin in 1880 on p. 61 of USNM Bulletin No. 18. It is identified there as seal harpoon head of bone and iron.

FROM CARD: "3 PARTS EACH. 1 DRILL."Source of the information below: Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/81 , retrieved 12-30-2019: This is a bow drill set consisting of a mouthpiece, spindle and bow. The mouthpiece has been carved from a single piece of wood. It has a square section that was held between the teeth, flanges on each side that would have rested against the cheeks, and a bearing made of stone with a hole to receive the drill spindle inset into the top of the arch. The spindle shaft is made from wood. It narrows toward the end that was inserted into the bearing of the mouthpiece, and is slightly constricted at the mid-point where the thong of the bow would have been wrapped around it. An iron drill bit, possibly a reworked nail, has been inserted into end of the spindle. The end of the spindle near the bit end has two sets of three incised lines encircling the shaft. The bow is made from a rib. It has a drilled hole at both ends for attaching a hide thong. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/20: The bow drills in the MacFarlane Collection were used for boring holes into wood, antler, bone and ivory. The drill spindle (shaft) has a bit at one end, and the other end is shaped to fit into a bearing that is held between the teeth. The spindle is rotated by wrapping a slack thong attached at each end of a drill bow around it, and moving the bow back and forth. Ancestral Inuvialuit also used another type of bow drill for starting fires.

Source of the information below: Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/80 , retrieved 1-28-2020: This is a small copy of a snow shovel, made of wood. A bent wood handle is mortised to the paddle-shaped shovel. On the same side there is an incised line running diagonally across the blade of the shovel, which is crossed at about its midpoint by a smaller incised lin. A triangular suspension hole has been cut through the handle. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/53: Snow shovels were used for clearing snow and for throwing snow onto sod houses and houses made of snow blocks to provide extra insulation.

Anthropology catalogue ledger book entry for this object identifies it as a "soup ladle." This was mistranscribed on artifact catalogue card as "soap ladle."Source of the information below: Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/78 , retrieved 12-17-2019: Ladle carved from a single piece of wood. The ladle has a short handle with a triangular section cut out. This opening may have been for hanging the ladle on a peg. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/36: Ladles made from wood, horn and ivory were used for dipping water and for stirring and serving broth.

From card: "Deer skin."This object is listed, but not described or analyzed, in Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/77 , retrieved 1-17-2020.

FROM CARD: "BOW QUIVER & 4 ARROWS."As of 2010, this object consists of small sinew cable-backed bow and 4 small arrows.Source of the information below: Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/76 , retrieved 12-17-2019: This miniature bow and arrow set is about one-third scale when compared to full size bow and arrows in the collection. Although it could have been made for a boy, it is listed in the Smithsonian Institution's catalogue as a model. The simple bow has sinew backing. One of the arrows is tipped with an iron arrowhead, and one has an arrowhead made of bone. Arrowheads are missing from the two other arrows.

FROM CARD: "ILLUS.: THE SPIRIT SINGS CATALOGUE, GLENBOW-ALBERTA INST., 1987, #A73, P.127."Source of the information below: Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/75 , retrieved 12-10-2019: Tobacco pouch. A pouch made of caribou skin. The decoration is made using pieces of white haired caribou skin and snippets of red and dark blue wool cloth. Around the bottom of the bag is a fringe of white haired skin strips that have been tipped with dark haired pieces of fur, possibly wolverine fur. Pouches of this type were commonly used to hold tobacco.

Source of the information below: Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/74 , retrieved 1-31-2020: Model of a sled with a raised deck. The runners are upturned at both ends, and each has a slat that forms part of the deck running between the two ends. The two runners are joined by another slat at each end, each of which lies on top of and at right angles to the first set of slats. These transverse slats are attached to each other, and to the runners, by sinew lashings that pass through holes drilled through the slats and runners. The deck is formed from three slats in addition to the two that run from end to end of each runner. The three middle slats are set into slots cut through the transverse slats, and all of the deck slats sit on an are lashed to arches formed from two pieces of wood that rise vertically from the runners and then bend inwards at 90 degrees to hold the deck slats. The transverse slats are decorated with incised lines stained with red ochre, and the sled is also stained with red ochre in various locations. A shaft of a model harpoon or spear is secured to the deck of this sled. This sled model appears to be similar to small sleds used to transport an umiaq, as shown in a painted wooden plaque (Catalogue No. E2545, # 6B). More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/72: The MacFarlane Collection contains small models of several types of sleds used by Inuvialuit for travelling on snow-covered ground. These models may have been commissioned since full-size sleds would have been difficult to ship the the Smithsonian Institution.

No catalog card found in card fileSource of the information below: Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/73 , retrieved 12-17-2019: Model of a kayak with prominent upturned ends that are distinctive of Inuvialuit kayaks. The frame is made from wood, and the cover is made from several pieces of hide stretched over the frame and stitched together. Three blue glass beads are attached to a seam that runs lengthwise along the deck. Deck lashings made from sinew for holding hunting implements are attached fore and aft of the cockpit. Two wooden implements are held by the foredeck lashings. These may represent sticks that were used to retrieve items stored inside the kayak. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/32: Inuvialuit used lightweight kayaks for hunting whales and seals, setting and hauling fishnets, and spearing swimming caribou. The frames were made from driftwood, and skins of seals or beluga whales were used for covers. Inuvialuit kayaks had distinctive upturned stems that were useful for lifting them from the water. Full-sized kayaks would have been difficult to send to the Smithsonian Institution, and MacFarlane instead collected accurately made models.See Collins boat MS. p. 821.