Snowshoe

Name/Title

Snowshoe

Entry/Object ID

1954.17.2

Description

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

Material

Wood, Leather