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Place of Origin:
Six Nations of the Grand River Territory
Date Made or Date Range:
/1912
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Materials
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Other Notes
Snowshoes, pair, each made from single piece of bark (elm ?), with smooth surface down. The rim is reinforced with a wood sapling and bound diagonally with bark stitching. No toe space, but a bark strip is threaded through bark forming a toe loop.;;
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Provenance
Current Location:
Canadian Museum of History, Ottawa, Canada
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number:
III-I-676 a,b
Collection Narratives and Histories
1912/04 - 1912/07, Six Nations Reserve, Ontario, Canada, (Waugh) Bark snowshoes. John Jamieson.
Sources to Learn More
Davidson, D.S., "Snowshoes", MEMOIRS, American Philosophical Society, Vol. VI, 1937, p. 144.
About This GRASAC Record
GKS Reference Number:
27276
Approximate Place of Origin