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FROM CARD: "IVORY STICKS, FORTY-SEVEN IN NUMBER; PIERCED WITH HOLES AT ONE END. TWENTY-FIVE ARE PLAIN AND TWENTY-TWO HAVE THEIR PENDANT ENDS BIFURCATED LIKE THE TAIL OF A FISH. ANDERSON RIVER. LENGTH OF STICKS, 2 1/4 TO 3 INCHES."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/258 , retrieved 12-30-2019: An assemblage of forty-seven ivory pendants from a bracelet. Each of the pendants has a small hole drilled at one end for attaching to a hoop or thong, or perhaps for sewing to the cuff of a glove. Some of the pendants are carved at the opposite end to resemble the tail of a fish. The other pendants have plain ends. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/13: Bracelets made from copper, brass or iron wire were commonly worn by women in the Western Arctic, and sometimes several were worn on the same wrist. Bone, antler and ivory pendants sewn around the cuffs of gloves also formed a type of bracelet.