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Description

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.

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