Snow Shoes Item Number: 50.67.159a-b from the Brooklyn Museum
Description
These wooden snow shoes are constructed with upturned, pointed tips. They are decorated with both red paint as well as red Stroud cloth which has been added as small red squares along the edges and covering the edges of the center sections. The red cloth is also wrapped around the curved wooden members that make up the external structure of the snow shoe. At the center of each shoe's right and left side, hide thong is wrapped over the red cloth section to secure it.
Credit Line
Henry L. Batterman Fund and the Frank Sherman Benson Fund
Item History
- Made between 1800 and 1825
What
- Name
- Snow Shoes
- Identification Number
- 50.67.159a-b
- Type of Item
- snow shoe
- Material
- pigment, stroud cloth, wood and fibre
- Overall
- length 55.0 in, width 13.0 in
Who
- Culture
- Chippewa and Red River Metis
Where
- Holding Institution
- Brooklyn Museum
When
- Creation Date
- between 1800 and 1825
Other
- Classification
- Clothing