Pair Of Showshoes
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. William H. Dall
label: Donor Name
content: Accession Number Unknown
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "SNOW-SHOES.---ROUND FRAME; ROUNDING TOE, LONG POINTED HEEL. TOE AND HEEL NETTING MADE OF DEER SINEW TWISTED INTO TWINE; FOOT NETTING, COARSE STRIPS OF RAWHIDE ROVE THROUGH FRAME. TWO SHORT LOOPS OVER TOE, AND A LONG ONE AROUND THE FOOT ABOVE THE HEEL, FASTEN TO FOOT. IN WALKING, THE TOE SINKS INTO AN OPENING IN THE NETTING PROVIDED FOR THE PURPOSE. LENGTH, 50 INS. GREATEST BREADTH, 11 7/8 INS. ALASKA, 1869. 8,812. COLLECTED BY WM. H. DALL. USED BY THE INGALIK (TINNEH OR KAIYUH-KHA-TANA) INDIANS."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Feb 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ingalik (Deg Xitʼan, Degexitʼan, Deg Hit'an)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 000000
label: USNM Number
content: E8812-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Snowshoe
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 127 cm
label: Maximum Width - Object
content: 30.162 cm