Snow-Shoes (2)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 27 Dec 1866
name: label: Donor Name
content: Bernard R. Ross
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "*DOUBLE ENTRY UNDER CAT. #571. SMALL-. ROUND FRAME; ROUND TOE; SLIGHTLY CURVED UP; LONG, BROAD HEEL, TERMINATING IN SHORT, SHARP POINT. TOE AND HEEL NETTING CLOSE & FINE, OF LINE CUT FROM PREPARED DEERSKINS, CALLED BABICHE; FOOT NETTING COARSER AND MORE OPEN. PAINTED & ORNAMENTED WITH BEADS."
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=7, retrieved 8-24-2012: Snowshoes, Gwich'in Athabascan. From discussion with Phillip Arrow, Trimble Gilbert, Eliza Jones and Judy Woods at the National Museum of Natural History and National Museum of the American Indian, 5/17/2004-5/21/2004. Also participating: Aron Crowell (NMNH), Kate Duncan (Arizona State University) and Suzi Jones (AMHA). Trimble Gilbert, Gwich'in, and Eliza Jones, Koyukon, identify these as hunting or walking snowshoes.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Apr 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Yukon River, Yukon, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kutchin (Gwich'in, Dihjii Zhuh)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00095
label: USNM Number
content: E1975-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Snowshoe Model
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 53.3 cm