Snowshoes
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1880
name: label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN BAE 18TH AR, PT. 1; FIG. 63; P. 212 ALSO IN USNM AR, 1894; PL.11; P. 390. ROUND FRAME, THE NETTING MADE OF DEER SINEW TWISTED INTO TWINE AND ROVE THROUGH FRAME; STRONGLY CURVED UP IN FRONT POINTED HEEL. RIGHT AND LEFT, A SLIGHT DIFFERENCE BEING MADE IN THE CURVES OF THE FRAMES. TWO SHORT LOOPS OVER HEEL FASTEN THEM TO FEET. USED BY THE INGALIK INDIANS."
label: Notes
content: Listed on page 29 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Family Group of the Western Eskimo, Alaska".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Mar 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Norton Bay, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inupiaq, Malemiut
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 80A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E45400-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Snowshoe
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 117 cm
label: Width
content: 26.7 cm