Snowshoes
date: label: Accession Date
content: 14 Dec 1948
label: Collection Date
content: 1892 to 1893
name: label: Collector
content: Father Francis Barnum
label: Donor Name
content: Georgetown University
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Wood frame with babiche webbing, elevated, rounded toe, identical in type to snowshoe of Eskimo of Yukon river illustrated Fig. 34 in Davidson, Daniel S., Snowshoes. 1937. Father [William C.] Repetti, Archivist of Georgetown University stated that these snowshoes were used by Father Francis Barnum in missionary work among the Eskimo of the Lower Yukon ca. 1892-1893. Father Repetti believed that all other Eskimo specimens from this collection were collected by Father Barnum."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Yukon River (Lower), Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 181344
label: USNM Number
content: E386766-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Snowshoe