FROM CARD: "DEER SKIN. THIS OBJECT WAS T-1026. THE OBJECT, A HOOD, SAYS 1686 BUT THAT IS A CHILD'S SHIRT WHICH HAS NOT BEEN FOUND."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/192 , retrieved 2-2-2020. General information on hoods or caps is available here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/15: Caps were used by themselves or under parka hoods to provide extra protection against the cold.

IDENTIFIED AS KUTCHIN TYPE BY JUDY THOMPSON, WESTERN SUBARCTIC CURATOR AT THE CANADIAN MUSEUM OF CIVILIZATION, 1999. FROM CARD: "COVERS ENTIRE HEAD EXCEPT FACE; SOFT TEXTURE; QUILLED BAND DESIGNS. BUCKSKIN FRINGED WITH QUILLED WRAPPINGS. SEED ORNAMENTS ATTACHED TO FRINGE; 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, 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 and hood are decorated with folded quills ...."

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."

Description under remarks section of catalogue card for 7731-7732, actually applies only to 7732. 7731 is a small fur hood, the object described on the catalogue card as a "head covering (capuchin)."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/152 , retrieved 2-10-2020: Child's caribou skin pullover hood or cap. The back of the hood is made using hide from the head of a caribou calf, and a ruff of wolverine fur is sewn around the opening for the face. Pieces of dark and white bands of caribou skin surround the openings for the face and neck. A fringe of caribou skin strips surrounds the bottom of the hood. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/15: Caps were used by themselves or under parka hoods to provide extra protection against the cold.

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."Tunic Illus. Fig. 64D p. 94 in Van Kampen, Ukjese. 2012. The History of Yukon First Nations Art, Phd dissertation, Leiden University. https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/18984 . Van Kampen identifies it as a woman's dress.

From card: :"Cedar bark. Part of a bride's outfit." DR. ANDREA LAFORET, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MAN, OTTAWA, NOTED 1-7-85: "THOUGH TLINGIT IS WRITTEN ON OBJECT THIS MAY BE A TSIMSHIAN HOOD WORN BY A PUBESCENT GIRL. TWO COMPARABLE PIECES EXIST; ONE IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MAN, OTTAWA, THE OTHER IN THE FIELD MUSEUM, CHICAGO.""

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