Babiche

Description

Cut babiche for lacing snowshoes: North America, Canada, Athapaskan, Hudson Bay, Mackenzie River area

Museum reference

A.480.9

Collection

Americas

Object name

Babiche

Production information

Mackenzie River Area, Hudson Bay, Canada, North America

Style / Culture

Athapaskan

Materials

Babiche

Physical description

Cut babiche

Associations

Hudson's Bay Company

References

Scottish Geographical Magazine (1934); Fur Trader's Memories: Extracts from the Records of Chief Factor Robert Campbell, Volume 50, Number 3, page 147

Idiens, Dale, A catalogue of Northern Athapaskan Indian artefacts in the collection of the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Museum Information Series, Art and Archaeology 3, March 1979