Apron, of caribou skin, painted in red and black, with a stylized beaver motif and trimmed with puffin bills: North America, Canada, British Columbia, Tsimshian, mid 19th century

Boy's dress of reindeer skin: North America, Canada, Norway House, Manitoba, Denesuline, 1858

Man's headdress, of tanned caribou skin mounted with seventeen grizzly bears' claws, the edge of the skin band overstitched with quills: North America, Canada, Northwest Territories, Dene, c. 1859

Moccasin of tanned moose skin, with tanned caribou skin vamps: North America, Canada, Alberta, Fort Chipewyan, c. 1859

Dress, of tanned smoked caribou skin, with slit neck and shirt-type collar tying with thongs, and rectangular cape hanging from shoulders across back, decorated with thongs wrapped with red and white porcupine quills, part of a woman's summer outfit: North America, Canada, Northwest Territories, Great Slave Lake, Tłı̨chǫ, 1860

Belt, comprising a band of loom-woven red and white porcupine quills mounted on tanned caribou skin, stitched to dress at waist centre-back and tying at front with thongs, part of a woman's summer outfit: North America, Canada, Northwest Territories, Great Slave Lake, Tłı̨chǫ, c. 1860

Legging, one of a pair, of tanned smoked caribou skin with thong fringes at the seams, sewn with sinew, part of a woman's summer outfit: North America, Canada, Northwest Territories, Great Slave Lake, Tłı̨chǫ, c. 1860

Legging, one of a pair, of tanned smoked caribou skin with thong fringes at the seams, sewn with sinew, part of a woman's summer outfit: North America, Canada, Northwest Territories, Great Slave Lake, Tłı̨chǫ, c. 1860

Moccasin, one of a pair, of tanned smoked caribou skin of two-piece form with added ankle flaps and drawstring thong ties, part of a woman's summer outfit: North America, Canada, Northwest Territories, Great Slave Lake, Tłı̨chǫ, c. 1860

Moccasin, one of a pair, of tanned smoked caribou skin of two-piece form with added ankle flaps and drawstring thong ties, part of a woman's summer outfit: North America, Canada, Northwest Territories, Great Slave Lake, Tłı̨chǫ, c. 1860

Man's cap, of red and blue wool cloth, the seams and edge covered with strips of patterned cotton cloth, with a band of tanned caribou skin supporting nine black bears' claws loosely attached to lower edge: North America, Canada, Northwest Territories, Slavey or Kaska, c. 1860

Shirt of tanned caribou skin with round neck and pointed lower edge, decorated with applied quillwork, red ochre, and thong fringes wrapped with quills and strung with silverberry seeds and beads, sewn with sinew, part of a man's summer outfit: North America, Canada, Yukon or Northwest Territories, Gwich'in, c. 1860

One of a pair of man's winter moccasins of tanned moose skin with vamps, ankle flaps and thongs of tanned caribou skin, applied vamps embroidered with a floral motif in blue, yellow, pink and green sewing silk: North America, Canada, Northwest Territories, Slavey

One of a pair of man's winter moccasins of tanned moose skin with vamps, ankle flaps and thongs of tanned caribou skin, applied vamps embroidered with a floral motif in blue, yellow, pink and green sewing silk: North America, Canada, Northwest Territories, Slavey

Tunic, of tanned caribou skin, decorated with trade beads, dentalium shells and quilled fringe, part of a Gwich'in man's summer outfit: North America, Canada, Northwest Territories, Gwich'in, c. 1862

Trouser moccasins, of tanned caribou skin, decorated with trade beads, dentalium shells and fringe part of a Gwich'in man's summer outfit: North America, Canada, Northwest Territories, Gwich'in, c. 1862