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Description: | Old label reads E100 CULT North American Indian Canada North America These snowshoes have been included in the Robertson catalogue as 'Beavertail type' shoes from North America. They have two horizontal bars with two sections of fine mesh in between, and a surrounding central band of wide mesh. There is a semi-circular hole in the centre, bound around the edges, with two straps attatched, one broken. Traces of red paint are still visible on the mesh. The shoes are very similar in shape and style to the snowshoes of the Eskimos (see Phelps p.290), with slight variations and may be 'Q' of Captain Laskey's 1813 account of the Museum contents. However if Laskey's attribution to Hudson's Bay is correct they cannot have been collected by Cook. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | JEN : FOOTWEAR : NAMERE : CLOTHING : UCOOK : ETHNO2_2007 : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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