Skees Or Snowshoes (1 Pair)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 4 Jun 1902
label: Collection Date
content: 1901
name: label: Collector
content: Ellsworth P. Bertholf
label: Donor Name
content: The House of Representatives
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Made of thin pine board, covered on the back with reindeer hide, the hairs pointing backward so as to prevent the weaver [sic, should be wearer] from slipping. Strap of rawhide passing over the instep and around the heel. These snowshoes were secured by Lt. Bertholf when engaged in collecting domestic reindeer and transporting them to Port Clarence, Alaska, for the use of the Eskimo."
label: Notes
content: In January 1901, the U.S. Department of Education asked Lt. Ellsworth Price Bertholf to travel to Siberia to purchase reindeer for the natives of northern Alaska. Traveling alone from Petrograd to Irkutsk, and from there across northern Siberia by sledge, he found and purchased an appropriate herd, and brought 254 animals back to Alaska. See entry on Bertholf at http://www.explorenorth.com/library/bios/bertholf-ellsworth.htm , retrieved 27 May 2019. See also "Reindeer In Alaska; Lieut. E. Bertholf Brings a Herd of 254 from Siberia. His Long Trip Over Ice and Snow a Wonderful Story - How the Deer Are Cared For and What They Cost." The New York Times 13 October 1901: 14. Print; https://nyti.ms/2WrTYNQ .
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 Sep 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Northeast, Siberia, Russia, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chukchi
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 039443
label: USNM Number
content: E215675-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Ski