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/223 , retrieved 1-28-2020: Spindle for a bow drill. The cylindrical wooden shaft tapers towards the end that was held in a drill bearing. The other end has been split to hold an iron bit, which is held in place by a lashing of twisted sinew that compresses the split. 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.Object is stored with its 19th century museum exhibit mount.

Rectangular box; no top/lid present. Card indicates this is Inuit made.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/222 , retrieved 2-11-2020: Box made from wood. The sides and bottom are joined to the end pieces by small wooden pegs inserted through drilled holes. The two longer sides have been decorated in an identical manner with incised lines highlighted with red ochre. A vertical line at the mid-point is intersected by five inverted 'V's, and on either side of that line are X-shaped incisions. There is no top with this box.This item is identified in the Smithsonian Institution's catalogue as a packing box. More information available here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/12: The MacFarlane collection contains a variety of wooden boxes. Boxes carved from single pieces of wood, and boxes with sides made from bent pieces of wood with bottoms pegged to them, are traditional Inuvialuit forms that were used for storing tools and other objects. Boxes with separate pieces for each side, bottom and top identified in the Smithsonian Institution's artifact catalogue as 'Packing Box Made by Esquimaux' may have been commissioned by MacFarlane for packing artifacts that were sent to the Smithsonian.

From card: "Deer skin."Parka model.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/221 , retrieved 1-17-2020.

From card: "Deer Skin."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/220 , retrieved 2-10-2020: A pair of men's boots. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/23: Warm, dry footwear is essential for survival in the Arctic. The MacFarlane Collection includes examples of knee-length boots known as kamaks, and ankle high moccasin-type footwear. These garments have been skillfully made, and often were decorated by piecing together contrasting pieces of skin. The soles are crimped along the front edges to make the shape conform to the foot.

FROM CARD: "5132-3. INVENTORIED 1976."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/219 , retrieved 1-17-2020: A pair of mittens made from wolverine hide. Each mitten has a band of caribou hide, red colouring and skin tags around the cuff. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/41: Mittens with separate thumbs were used for keeping the hands warm in winter. They usually have the hair on the outside at the back of the mitten, which can be held against one's face to keep it warm. The mittens usually are quite short, as the fur trim on the sleeves of parkas protected the exposed wrist.

FROM CARD: "3 ILLUS. IN SMITHSONIAN REPT 1893; PL. 56, FIGS. 2, 3, 4; P. 679."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/218 , retrieved 1-8-2020: This is a set of fourteen arrowheads. All appear to have been made from bone. One of the arrowheads has barbs along both edges, and the others have barbs along one edge only. The arrowheads all have conical tangs that would have been inserted into the ends of arrow shafts. The Smithsonian Instutiton catalgue identifies these items as tips for fish darts; however, they are similar in size and shape to arrowheads on arrows in the MacFarlane Collection.Note: in addition to the 14 arrowheads described above, there are 2 additional points that have been called # E2674. However, they may not actually belong with this set.

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/217 , retrieved 1-24-2020: Knife with an iron blade and a handle made from whalebone. A hide thong is wrapped around the handle, securing the blade and providing a grip. The blade is sharpened along one edge only.

FROM CARD: "7435-7. 7436-2 SPECIMENS."There are two objects with this number: a small labret very similar to the ones number E7435, and a larger ornament inlaid with a blue glass bead (this may be a belt fastener or some other kind of toggle). It is possible that one of these may actually be number E7437, which has not been located.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/216 , retrieved 1-17-2020.

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/215 , retrieved 1-28-2020: Small toggle made from bone or ivory. It is widest at the midpoint, where a hole has been drilled for attaching a line, part of which remains in place. The two ends have been carved to represent the faces of animals, with shallow drilled holes representing their eyes. The length of the faces suggests that they are caribou representations. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/57: Toggles are a type of handle attached to the end of lines. They were used at the ends of harpoon lines, and on lines used for dragging seals and other heavy items over snow and ice. The also were used to join two lines by passing a toggle attached to one line through a loop on another line.

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/214 , retrieved 1-28-2020: Graver with an iron blade set into a handle made from antler. The handle consists of two pieces of antler with matching grooves at one end that hold the blade. Parts of the handle pieces have been cut away at each end, leaving a slight step. The two parts of the handle are secured by a wrapping of hide thong. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/27: Gravers with iron tips held in bone and antler shafts were used for engraving designs on ivory, bone antler and wood.