Snowshoes (1 Pair)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Dec 1866
name: label: Donor Name
content: John Varden
notes: label: Notes
content: From Card: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1894; PL. 19; P. 404. Square oak frame; broad, round toe, slightly curved up long pointed heel. Foot netting stout rawhide, wrapped around frame; rove through frame. Decorated with tuft of worsted in frame. L. 48 1/2". Greatest breadth, 13 1/4"".
label: Notes
content: See Drummond, Thomas (December 1916). "The Canadian snowshoe". Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, section 2. 3. 10: 305–20 + pl. 1-6. One of these snowshoes is illustrated in Plate 4, Figure 4, where it is identified as an old Algonkian snowshoe from Canada, "probably one of the oldest in existence".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Eastern, United States (not certain) / Canada (not certain), North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Algonquin (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00092
label: USNM Number
content: E1756-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Snowshoe