Materials

wood, tendon, red pigment

Motifs and Patterns

markings in red pigment

Condition: good

Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses

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Current Location: University of Aberdeen Museums & Special Collections, Aberdeen, Scotland

Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: ABDUA:5721

Link to Institution's Collections Database: ABDUA:5721 CALMView

Collection at Current Location: ABDUA University of Aberdeen Human Culture Collection

Date of Acquisition by the Institution: 1930

Who the Institution Acquired the Relative or Heritage Item From: Dr John McPherson

Date Relative was First Removed or Collected from its Community Context: Likely between 1925 and 1930

Previous Collectors: Dr John McPherson

Collection Narratives and Histories

McPherson worked in Mexico as a doctor in Mexico until 1925, when he relocated to 24 Green St)Halifax ,Nova Scotia due to a breakdown in his health. In 1930 he returned to Mexico, though his wife remained in Halifax. He visited Aberdeen in April of 1930 with several smaller packages of objects, and promised that several large cases were forthcoming.

Related items in the GKS: Adze blade snow shoes quilled birchbark box & lid knife and sheath birchbark container snow shoes crooked knife

GKS Reference Number: 59102

How to Cite this Item

“Snowshoes, pair”, catalogue number ABDUA:5721 in the University of Aberdeen Museums and Special Collections, is licenced under CC By 4.0.

Record Creation Context

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