Snowshoes
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 Oct 1881
name: label: Collector
content: George Catlin
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Joseph Harrison Jr.
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Hickory frame with two braces, heel and toe sharply pointed and toe curved up. Foot netting of finely woven babiche, rove around the framre, which is protected from chafing with pieces of cloth. Heel and toe netting rove through the frame. Sides of frame ornamented with tufts of red and blue flannel. Deerskin strips for fastening the toe piece to the boot. If these actually are Chippewyan, then Catlin must have gotten them from someone through trade because he was not in these peoples' country. - R. Elder"
label: Notes
content: See U.S. National Museum Annual Report for 1894, p. 395 - 396, where these snowshoes are described, and which seems to be the source of the Chipewyan identification.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Apr 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: United States / Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: 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: 010638
label: USNM Number
content: E73310-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Snowshoe