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FROM CARD: "*DOUBLE ENTRY UNDER CAT. #571. SMALL-. ROUND FRAME; ROUND TOE; SLIGHTLY CURVED UP; LONG, BROAD HEEL, TERMINATING IN SHORT, SHARP POINT. TOE AND HEEL NETTING CLOSE & FINE, OF LINE CUT FROM PREPARED DEERSKINS, CALLED BABICHE; FOOT NETTING COARSER AND MORE OPEN. PAINTED & ORNAMENTED WITH BEADS."Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=7, retrieved 8-24-2012: Snowshoes, Gwich'in Athabascan. From discussion with Phillip Arrow, Trimble Gilbert, Eliza Jones and Judy Woods at the National Museum of Natural History and National Museum of the American Indian, 5/17/2004-5/21/2004. Also participating: Aron Crowell (NMNH), Kate Duncan (Arizona State University) and Suzi Jones (AMHA). Trimble Gilbert, Gwich'in, and Eliza Jones, Koyukon, identify these as hunting or walking snowshoes.