- Date
- 1900 – 1920
- Material
- wood; skin; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 106.04.0001 a,b
- Description
- A pair of round-tipped snowshoes. Each snowshoe has a bent wood frame screwed together at the tail, wooden cross braces, is strung quite openly with rawhide strips, and has woven canvas tie-on straps (homemade harness). The initials “P.A.M.” (Philip Augustus Moore) are scratched into the front cro…
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- Title
- Snowshoes
- Date
- 1900 – 1920
- Material
- wood; skin; fibre
- Dimensions
- 1.5 x 31.0 x 84.5 and 85.5 cm
- Description
- A pair of round-tipped snowshoes. Each snowshoe has a bent wood frame screwed together at the tail, wooden cross braces, is strung quite openly with rawhide strips, and has woven canvas tie-on straps (homemade harness). The initials “P.A.M.” (Philip Augustus Moore) are scratched into the front crossbrace of each snowshoe.
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 106.04.0001 a,b
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