Snowshoes

Snowshoes.

Name/Title

Snowshoes

Entry/Object ID

2003.73.1a-b

Description

Pair of wooden snowshoes with up-turned toe and rawhide webbing. The framed are formed of a single piece of wood bent into shape and secured with two bars across the middle. The webbing is woven in an open pattern, and the frames are highly varnished. There are leather bindings at the center. One snowshoe has the number 40 written on the cross piece near the toe.

Context

Owned by Charles Willard Phipard of Royalton, Vermont

Acquisition

Accession

2003.73

Source or Donor

Dumville, John P. (b. 1950)

Acquisition Method

Gift

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Snowshoe

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Human-Powered Vehicles

Nomenclature Class

Land Transportation T&E

Nomenclature Category

Category 07: Distribution & Transportation Objects

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Overall (each)

Width

12-1/4 in

Length

41-1/2 in

Material

Wood, Leather, Rawhide

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Phipard, Charles Willard (1916-2002)

Related Places

Place

Town

Royalton

County

Windsor County

State/Province

Vermont

Country

United States of America

Continent

North America