The construction shows evidence of careful, skilled work — sewing patterns and material choices that reflect knowledge of how to make durable clothing suited to the specific demands of the alpine and subarctic environment.

The animal species represented in the clothing are significant.

Ground squirrel — the small but nutritious and widely distributed rodent of the subarctic — was used extensively.

Gopher skins were also identified.

These are animals associated with the interior subarctic landscape, where they are abundant and where their furs have long been used for clothing by interior peoples including the Champagne and Aishihik and related communities.

But the hat was different.