Snowshoes 2 Item Number: E5647-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1894; PL. 16; P. 394. MARKED PRIVATE." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "SNOW-SHOES.--SQUARE FRAMES, POINTED ENDS, SHARPLY CURVED UP IN FRONT. TOE AND HEEL NETTING OF FINE LINE, CUT FROM PREPARED DEERSKINS, CALLED BABICHE, ROVE THROUGH FRAMES. FOOT NETTING COARSER AND WOUND AROUND FRAMES. FRAMES PAINTED BLACK AND GREEN AND DECORATED WITH TUFTS OF COLORED WORSTED ON OUTSIDE. LENGTH, 29 INS. GREATEST BREADTH, 8 1/2 INS. FORT SIMPSON, MACKENZIE RIVER, BRITISH AMERICA, 1868. 5,647. COLLECTED BY B. R. ROSS. USED BY HUDSON BAY COMPANY'S VOYAGEURS OF MACKENZIE RIVER DISTRICT."
Item History
- Made in Fort Simpson, Northwest Territories, Canada
- Collected by Bernard R. Ross in Fort Simpson, Northwest Territories, Canada
- Received on January 13, 1868
What
- Name
- Snowshoes 2
- Identification Number
- E5647-0
- Type of Item
- snowshoe
Who
- Field Collector
- Bernard R. Ross
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Fort Simpson, Northwest Territories, Canada
- Collected in
- Fort Simpson, Northwest Territories, Canada
When
- Acquisition Date
- on January 13, 1868
Other
- Accession Number
- 68A00009