Snowshoes (model); spruce with moose hide thongs; length 22.2 cm each. Tourist item based on aboriginal snowshoe type seen in Museum of Natural History, N.Y.; used by both men and women, sold door-to-door or at stands in summer. Made by men.
Donor:
Lucy W. Turner and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Moose Factory, Ontario, Canada
Culture or time period:
Cree
Collection date:
October 1971
Taxon:
Alces alces
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Shoes (footwear)
Function:
1.4 Transportation
Accession date:
February 20, 1974
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Comment:
This object record was created because location data had been entered into the PHOEBE database without a corresponding object record. (J. Meehan 6/2003)