Woman's parka of brown and white fur (caribou?) with the brown used as a design on the white fur. It is trimmed in a hide fringe around the curvilinear back bottom and front edges. There is bordered white fur near the face area, fur on the sleeves cut to form stripes, geometric design on the chest and over the stomach flap. Fringe hangs from the hem of upper portion like a weskit and from shoulder epaulets. It was exhibited with 36.32.Note: photo in Luna is upside down.

FROM CARD: "PARKA FOUND 12/1975 TROUSERS FOUND 5/1976."Parka: 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/289 , retrieved 12-10-2019: Woman's parka. This is part of a set that includes trousers. The parka is made of reindeer skin with long rounded flaps front and back. The hood is made with white skin and extends past the shoulders to form triangular sections down the front and the back of the parka. On the side of the hood is a thin strip of dark stained intestine or stomach skin. The back of the hood, the upper arms, and the hem are decorated and finely pieced with many bands of light and dark cropped skin and snippets of red wool. There are long wolverine fur tassels on the top of the hood, on the chest, upper arms, back of shoulders, and middle back. The hood and the hem are trimmed with wolverine fur. The wolverine fur is stained red on the skin side. Reindeer are a domesticated variety of caribou. At the time Inuvialuit were trading at Fort Anderson the nearest reindeer were in Siberia. The reindeer hides used to make this parka probably came to the area through long distance trade networks that Inuvialuit and Inupiat developed throughout the western Canadian Arctic and Alaska and into Siberia.Trousers: 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/278 , retrieved 12-10-2019: Woman's pants with stockings attached made from caribou hide with the hair on the outside. Small pieces of hide with white hair create stripes on the outside of the knees. The feet are made with white and lighter coloured belly skin. A piece of ground squirrel fur has been added at the top of the trousers. This is part of a set that includes a parka.

FROM CARD: "1710 FOUND DEC 1975."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/237 , retrieved 12-19-2019: Man's parka made of caribou hide. The back of the parka is a bit longer than the front and has a slightly curved shape. White skin hood gores extend onto the front of the parka. The hood and hem of the parka are trimmed with wolverine fur. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/44: In winter men, women and children wore skin parkas (qusungat) over an inner garment (atigi). They were skillfully tailored using many individual pieces of skin (usually caribou) chosen for the thickness of the hide and qualities of the hair. Men's and women's parkas each had their own style, evident in the shape of the hood and the hem, and children's clothing mirrored the clothing of adults. Each parka was made to fit one particular individual, with the seamstress measuring with hand and eye and following complex patterns that were handed down from generation to generation. Parkas were decorated by incorporating pieces of skin with shorn hair and contrasting colours, and were sometimes coloured with dyes. The hood, cuffs and hem of the parka were usually trimmed with wolverine fur, which kept the cold out and because frost was easy to brush off the thick and stiff fur.

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/229 , retrieved 12-27-2019: Man's caribou skin parka. The back of the parka is a bit longer than the front and has a slightly curved shape. The white haired skin on the hood extends past the shoulders to form gores down the front. The hood ruff is made with caribou skin. The hem is trimmed with a band of caribou skin and wolverine or wolf fur. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/44: In winter men, women and children wore skin parkas (qusungat) over an inner garment (atigi). They were skillfully tailored using many individual pieces of skin (usually caribou) chosen for the thickness of the hide and qualities of the hair. Men's and women's parkas each had their own style, evident in the shape of the hood and the hem, and children's clothing mirrored the clothing of adults. Each parka was made to fit one particular individual, with the seamstress measuring with hand and eye and following complex patterns that were handed down from generation to generation. Parkas were decorated by incorporating pieces of skin with shorn hair and contrasting colours, and were sometimes coloured with dyes. The hood, cuffs and hem of the parka were usually trimmed with wolverine fur, which kept the cold out and because frost was easy to brush off the thick and stiff fur.

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.

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/211 , retrieved 12-27-2019: Boy's caribou skin parka.

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/180 , retrieved 12-27-2019: Girl's caribou skin parka.

FROM CARD: "2 PARTS."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/165 , retrieved 12-19-2019: Model of a girl's parka and pants. The parka has the caribou hair turned to the inside. It is trimmed around on the hood and around hem with wolverine fur, and a thin line of red ochre has been applied around the hem. There are skin tags on the hood and 3 bird feathers are attached to the back. The pants have the caribou hair on the outside. The leggings and feet are all one piece.

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/135 , retrieved 12-19-2019: Man's parka made of caribou hide. The back of the parka is a bit longer than the front and has a slightly curved shape. The hood is made from the head skin of a caribou with the ears intact. Tags of clipped caribou skin are set into the seams. The hem is pieced with several bands of caribou skin and decorated on the inside with a red stained line and snippets of red yarn. A wolverine trim finishes the hem. The sleeves have red wool fabric and wolverine trim at the cuffs. Inside the parka, three strands of large trade beads are strung across the chest. The beads are red, white and a faceted dark blue. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/44: In winter men, women and children wore skin parkas (qusungat) over an inner garment (atigi). They were skillfully tailored using many individual pieces of skin (usually caribou) chosen for the thickness of the hide and qualities of the hair. Men's and women's parkas each had their own style, evident in the shape of the hood and the hem, and children's clothing mirrored the clothing of adults. Each parka was made to fit one particular individual, with the seamstress measuring with hand and eye and following complex patterns that were handed down from generation to generation. Parkas were decorated by incorporating pieces of skin with shorn hair and contrasting colours, and were sometimes coloured with dyes. The hood, cuffs and hem of the parka were usually trimmed with wolverine fur, which kept the cold out and because frost was easy to brush off the thick and stiff fur.