Snowshoes

snowshoes

Name/Title

Snowshoes

Entry/Object ID

1981.27a-b

Description

Pair of bentwood and rawhide snowshoes. There are two crossbeams, one near the toe and one near the heel. Rawhide is woven between the outer frame and crossbeams in a 6-pointed stair pattern, with a square hole left at the center beneath the crossbeam at the toe. There are leather straps for holding onto the wearer's foot attached to the edge of the square hole. The toe crossbeam has a sticker with the label, "GREEN MOUNTAIN SNOWSHOE / Guaranteed Not to Sag / MADE BY W. H. KETCHUM, Gaysville, Vt."

Context

Made by Walter H. Ketchum in Gaysville, Vermont

Acquisition

Accession

1981.27

Source or Donor

Howard, Joe

Acquisition Method

Purchase

Made/Created

Artist

Ketchum, Walter Harrison (1868-1939)

Manufacturer

Green Mountain Snowshoe

Date made

1925 - 1938

Place

Village

Gaysville

Town

Stockbridge

County

Windsor County

State/Province

Vermont

Country

United States of America

Continent

North America

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

12-3/8 in

Length

28-1/2 in

Material

Wood, Rawhide