Anderson River Items Collected for Smithsonian

1866AD

1800s–1900s

Between 1861 and 1866, Roderick MacFarlane purchased and collected hundreds of ethnographic and thousands of natural history items which became a founding collection of the new Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC.

Skin pouch, likely used to hold tobacco, from the MacFarlane Collection. Photo by David Stewart, Inuvialuit Communications Society.