Snowshoes 2
date: label: Accession Date
content: 13 Jan 1868
name: label: Collector
content: Bernard R. Ross
label: Donor Name
content: Bernard R. Ross
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1894; PL. 16; P. 394. MARKED PRIVATE." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "SNOW-SHOES.--SQUARE FRAMES, POINTED ENDS, SHARPLY CURVED UP IN FRONT. TOE AND HEEL NETTING OF FINE LINE, CUT FROM PREPARED DEERSKINS, CALLED BABICHE, ROVE THROUGH FRAMES. FOOT NETTING COARSER AND WOUND AROUND FRAMES. FRAMES PAINTED BLACK AND GREEN AND DECORATED WITH TUFTS OF COLORED WORSTED ON OUTSIDE. LENGTH, 29 INS. GREATEST BREADTH, 8 1/2 INS. FORT SIMPSON, MACKENZIE RIVER, BRITISH AMERICA, 1868. 5,647. COLLECTED BY B. R. ROSS. USED BY HUDSON BAY COMPANY'S VOYAGEURS OF MACKENZIE RIVER DISTRICT."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Apr 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Fort Simpson, Northwest Territories, Canada, 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: 68A00009
label: USNM Number
content: E5647-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Snowshoe
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 74 cm
label: Maximum Width - Object
content: 21.6 cm