Wood and rawhide snowshoes. The snowshoes have a bent wood frame in a teardrop shape with two crossbars across the wide portion. The center of the wide portion, between the crossbars, is woven with strips of rawhide. There is a purposeful woven hole at the center front.
Context
Collected by Harold G. Rugg.
Acquisition
Accession
1954.17
Source or Donor
Rugg, Harold Goddard (1883-1957)
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