Snow-Shoes, Pair
date: label: Accession Date
content: 31 Dec 1867
name: label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Department Of War
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "MODEL: SQUARE FRAME-STICKS, FLAT FRAMES, BROAD TOES, LONG POINTED HEEL. NETTING MADE OF LINE, CUT FROM PREPARED DEERSKINS, CALLED BABICHE; THAT IN TOE AND HEEL IS CLOSE, AND FINE AND ROVE THROUGH THE FRAME; UNDER THE FOOT IT IS COARSER AND MORE OPEN, AND IS WRAPPED AROUND THE FRAME, WHICH IS PROTECTED FROM CHAFING BY RED FLANNEL." The Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies the culture for these snowshoes as "Chippewyan?". The catalogue card calls them "Chippewa."
label: Notes
content: Entered in the orginal ledger catalog as from the War Department, source listed as Chipewyan. Marked on specimen as War Dept.. Thomas McKenney illustrated this or an identical pair of snowshoes in his publication Tour to the Lakes... , originally issued in 1827. This would suggest a Chippewa origin. Length: 28"
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Woodlands (Northeast) (not certain), United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chippewa (Ojibwe, Anishinaabe) (?)
label: Culture
content: Chipewyan (Denesoline, Denesuline, Dene) (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 67A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E2651-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Snowshoe