Snowshoes
Item number N2.191 a-b from the MOA: University of British Columbia.
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Description
Pair of snowshoes, each made of two light brown wood sticks, stripped of bark and bent into a U-shape. The two U's are bound together facing each other, the ends overlapping and forming an ellipse. The binding is composed of four strips of light yellow wood, steam-bent and knotted, one around each end of each U, and two kinds of plant fibre cord, one used as lashing across centre of ellipse and the other loosely tied around the former. Between the overlapping ends of the U's are wood wedges.
History Of Use
Worn as snowshoes or ice crampons.
Cultural Context
worn in snow
Item History
- Made in Japan before 1959
- Collected during 1959
- Owned by Ronald P. Dore before 1960
- Received from Ronald P. Dore (Seller) and Leon & Thea Koerner Foundation (Funding source) during 1960
What
- Name
- Snowshoes
- Identification Number
- N2.191 a-b
- Type of Item
- snowshoe
- Material
- wood, fibre and grass
- Manufacturing Technique
- cut, stripped, split ?, shredded ?, knotted, lashed, twisted, carved, steamed and bent
- Part B
- height 11.0 cm, width 23.5 cm, depth 35.0 cm
- Part A
- height 10.5 cm, width 24.0 cm, depth 36.0 cm
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Japan
Who
- Culture
- Japanese
- Previous Owner
- Ronald P. Dore
- Received from
- Ronald P. Dore (Seller) and Leon & Thea Koerner Foundation (Funding source)
When
- Creation Date
- before 1959
- Collection Date
- during 1959
- Ownership Date
- before 1960
- Acquisition Date
- during 1960
Other
- Condition
- good
- Accession Number
- 0065/0028
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