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/233 , retrieved 12-19-2019: A pair of men's gloves. The fingers are made from a separate piece sewn onto the hand piece. The gloves are decorated with a row of large blue trade beads across the knuckles and near the cuff. Materials: sinew, caribou hide.

FROM CARD: "INVENTORIED 1976."Records in the SI Archives of the Office of Distribution say this was transferred [to whom?] in 1867 but apparently either this is incorrect or it was later returned to the Museum.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/137 , retrieved 12-10-2019: A pair of hide gloves. The left hand glove is notable as it has only three fingers.

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN BAE 18TH AR, PT. 1, PL. XX-2, P. 58."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/66 , retrieved 12-27-2019: A pair of fancy caribou skin gloves. The fingers are each made from a separate piece with the seam along the top sewn onto the hand piece. Decorative trims around the cuffs, across the knuckles and outlining the thumbs are pieced with strips of clipped dark and light caribou hide. Pieces of dark caribou skin are prominent on front and back of the gloves. A strip of wolverine fur with red ochre colouring encircles the cuffs.

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/54 , retrieved 1-3-2020: A pair of gloves, possibly made of caribou skin. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/24: Gloves in the MacFarlane Collection are made from caribou skin, and often are decorated with beads, wool or by piecing together contrasting pieces of skin. Gloves might be worn with outer mitts for added warmth.

From card: "Beaded buckskin with shoulder band of loom beadwork."

Florence Sheakley made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. These are a pair of non-commercially made women's gloves, featuring embroidery and quill designs. This object has strips of leather, and the inside is lined with fur.

DENA'INAQ' HUCH'ULYESHI: THE DENA'INA WAY OF LIVING. JONES, SUZI, JAMES A. FALL, AND AARON LEGGETT, EDITORS EXHIBITION CATALOG, 2013

SPIRITS LIKE THE SOUND OF THE RATTLE AND DRUM: GEORGE THORNTON EMMONS' COLLECTION OF TLINGIT SHAMANS' KITS. ILIFF, BARBARA ELIZABETH DISSERTATION, 1994