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Description: | Old labels and painted label read 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 rectangular hole in the centre, bound around the edges. They are very similar in shape and style to the snowshoes of the Eskimos (see Phelps p.290), with slight variations.
They may be 'Q' of Captain Laskey's 1813 account of the Museum contents. However, if Laskey's Hudson Bay attribution 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 : CLOTHING : NAMERE : UCOOK : | 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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