Pair Snowshoes
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1879
name: label: Collector
content: Edward W. Nelson
label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "SNOW-SHOES.---SMALL AND NEARLY FLAT. FRAME ROUND AND ROUGHLY SHAPED; ROUNDING TOE; POINTED HEEL. TOE AND HEEL NETTING OF FINE STRONG REMNI; FOOT NETTING STRONG MAHOUT. BOTH SHOES ALIKE. STRONG, SIMPLE, AND WELL ADAPTED FOR WALKING ON HARD SNOW OF THE COAST. LENGTH, 36 1/2 INS. GREATEST BREADTH, 9 1/2 INS. MOUTH OF YUKON RIVER, 1879. 38,873. COLLECTED BY E. W. NELSON. USED BY THE INNUITS, ESKIMO."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 9 Oct 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: St. Michael, Norton Sound, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 008133
label: USNM Number
content: E38873-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Snowshoe
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 92.7 cm
label: Maximum Width - Object
content: 24.1 cm