Snow-Shoes
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1863
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. Robert Kennicott
label: Donor Name
content: Mr. Robert Kennicott
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "*IDENTIFIED AS "HARE" BY CORNELIUS OSGOOD, SEPT. 1970, SOLELY ON THE BASIS OF INDEX ENTRY "FORT GOOD HOPE, R. KENNICOTT." RATHER SMALL SIZE. SQUARE FRAME, POINTED AT EACH END AND CURVED UP IN FRONT. NETTING OF FINE LINE CUT FROM PREPARED DEERSKINS, CALLED BABICHE; THAT UNDER FOOT IS COARSE AND STRONG AND WRAPPED AROUND FRAMES, THE REST IS FINER AND CLOSER AND IS WOVE THROUGH FRAME. L. 36 INCHES, GREATEST BREADTH, 8 3/4:. #861: SQUARE FRAME, POINTED AT EACH END AND CURVED UP IN FRONT. NETTING OF FINE LINE CUT FROM PREPARED DEERSKINS, CALLED BABICHE; THAT UNDER FOOT IS COARSE AND STRONG AND WRAPPED AROUND FRAMES, THE REST IS FINER AND CLOSER AND IS WOVE THROUGH FRAME. L. 36 INCHES, G. B. 8 3/4". "
label: Notes
content: Provenience note: Ledger book identifies as from the "Indians of Ft. Good Hope", but also says "snow shoes of Slave Indians of Mackenzie River."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 May 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hare (K'asho Got'ine, Dene)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 000177
label: USNM Number
content: E861-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Snowshoe
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 91 cm
label: Maximum Width - Object
content: 22.22 cm