frame dia. 2 cm, cordage dia. 2 cm average; covered with lichen

frame dia. 2 cm, cordage dia. 2 cm average; covered with lichen

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1894; PL. 14; P. 394." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "SNOW-SHOES.---FRAME OF WOOD; ROUNDING TOE, STRONGLY CURVED UP; LONG POINTED HEEL. TOE AND HEEL NETTING CLOSE AND FINE, MADE OF LINES OF PREPARED DEER SKIN, OR BABICHE; FOOT NETTING COARSE, STRONG MAHOUT, ROVE THROUGH FRAME. PAINTED AND ORNAMENTED WITH BEADS. LOOPS FOR FASTENING THE SHOE TO THE FOOT. THESE SHOES WERE NOT MADE TO BE WORN INTERCHANGEABLY ON RIGHT AND LEFT FOOT, THERE BEING A SLIGHT DIFFERENCE IN THE SHAPE OF THE TWO FRAMES. LENGTH, 49 INCHES; GREATEST WIDTH, 11 3/4 INCHES. SITKA, ALASKA, 1882. 63,558. COLLECTED BY JOHN J. MCLEAN. WORN BY THE TINNE INDIANS (ATHAPASCAN STOCK) AND BROUGHT TO SITKA IN TRADE. NEG. NO. 5521."

FROM CARD: "7470-1. 7471-L. 33", GREATEST BREADTH 9".Source of the information below: Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/185 , retrieved 1-31-2020: These long, teardrop-shaped snowshoes are rounded and upturned at the front ('toe') and pointed at the tail. The frame of each is made from wood, probably willow, joined at the at the tail by a thong and at the toe by a splice that is wrapped with a thong. The sides of the frame are braced apart with three wood cross-bars mortised into the frame. The space for the foot between the foremost bar and the next one back is netted using hide thongs. Fore and aft of those bars is finer and more closely spaced meshing made with thinner thongs, or 'babiche'. Additional thongs attached at the centreline hold sets of three red and blue beads. At several points those thongs and adjacent sections of the netting have been stained with red ochre. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/65: MacFarlane collected two pairs of snowshoes. They are strikingly similar to snowshoes used by Gwich'in, and may have been copied or traded by the Inuvialuit.

FROM CARD: "SQUARE, FRAME POINTED END, SHARPLY CURVED UP IN FRONT; NETTING MADE OF FINE LINE, CUT FROM PREPARED DEERSKINS, CALLED BABICHE; FOOT NETTING WRAPPED AROUND FRAME; THE REST IS ROVE THROUGH IT; WOOD-WORK PAINTED AND ORNAMENTED WITH TUFTS OF WORSTED ON THE OUTSIDE. CHIPPEWAYAN MODEL, USED BY ESKIMO OF ARCTIC COAST AND BY HUDSON BAY CO.'S VOYAGEURS. *DOUBLE ENTRY UNDER CAT. #530."

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.

FROM CARD: "*DOUBLE ENTRY UNDER CAT. #569. "SQUARE FRAME; POINTED ENDS, SHARPLY CURVED UP IN FRONT. NETTING CLOSE & FINE, MADE OF FINE LINE, CUT FROM PREPARED DEERSKINS CALLED BABICHE; THE FOOT NETTING BEING WRAPPED AROUND FRAME AND COARSER THAN THE REST. ORNAMENTED W/ TUFTS OF WORSTED ON OUTSIDE OF FRAME. CHIPPEWAYAN MODEL, USED BY ESKIMO OF ARCTIC CST."

FROM CARD: "7470-1. MODEL --ROUND FRAME; ROUND-POINTED TOE, STRONGLY CURVED UP; BROAD HEEL, TERMINATING IN SHORT, SHARP POINT. NETTING CLOSE AND FINE OF LINE CUT FROM PREPARED DEERSKINS, CALLED BABICHE, ROVE THROUGH FRAME; THAT UNDER FOOT BEING COARSER AND MORE OPEN. PAINTED AND ORNAMENTED WITH LINE OF LARGE BLUE GLASS BEADS ALONG MIDDLE OF NETTING. 7470-L. 23", GREATEST BREADTH 4 1/2". [LOAN] A NATION OF NATIONS 12/75. LOAN RETURNED AUG 1988."Source of the information below: Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/9 , retrieved 1-31-2020: These long, teardrop-shaped snowshoes are rounded and upturned at the front ('toe') and pointed at the tail. The frame of each is made from wood, probably willow, joined at the at the tail by a thong and at the toe by a splice that is wrapped with a thong. The sides of the frame are braced apart with three wood cross-bars mortised into the frame. The space for the foot between the foremost bar and the next one back is netted using hide thongs. Fore and aft of those bars is finer and more closely spaced meshing made with thinner thongs, or 'babiche'. Additional thongs attached at the centreline hold sets of ... blue beads. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/65: MacFarlane collected two pairs of snowshoes. They are strikingly similar to snowshoes used by Gwich'in, and may have been copied or traded by the Inuvialuit.