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Snowshoe

Description

Model snowshoe, one of a pair, of wood and babiche: North America, Canada, Northwest Territories, Great Slave Lake, Fort Rae, Tłı̨chǫ, c. 1860

Museum reference

A.558.58 A

Collection

Americas

Object name

Snowshoe, Model

Production information

Unknown
Fort Rae, Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada, North America

Date

c. 1860

Style / Culture

Tłı̨chǫ
Athapaskan

Materials

Wood, Babiche

Physical description

Model showshoes with wood frame laced with babiche, frame upturned at front with pointed ends.

Collection place(s)

Northwest Territories, Canada, North America

Associations

Hudson's Bay Company

Exhibitions

  • Living Lands (29 Jul 2011)
    National Museum of Scotland

  • Dogrib: We live securely by the land (01 Oct 2006 - 14 Dec 2007)
    Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre
    Carleton University Art Gallery

References

Dè T’a Hoti Ts’eeda: ‘We Live Securely by the Land’; An Exhibition of Dene material selected from the collections from National Museums Scotland. Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada 2006

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

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