Pair Snowshoes
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1991
name: label: Donor Name
content: No Information
notes: label: Notes
content: PAIR OF SNOWSHOES WITH BLUE GLASS BEADS.
label: Notes
content: One possible catalogue number for this object would be E877, which was identified as Athabaskan from Lapierre House, Canada.
label: Notes
content: These snowshoes seem to be one of two pairs (the upper pair in the case) shown in a circa 1880s photo of an exhibit case/exhibits in the U.S. National Museum (now the Arts and Industries Building). See Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. 11-007, Box 020, Image No. MNH-4476 or 4476. See also Record Unit 95, Box 42, Folder 25. http://collections.si.edu/search/detail/edanmdm:siris_arc_391788 . The snowshoes in the case are labelled as from "Indians of Canada."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 10 Dec 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Canada (not certain), North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 999999
label: USNM Number
content: ET14626-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Snowshoe