Snowshoes

Athabascan peoples, inland Alaska, United States (map), d. late 19th/early 20th c.

Wood frame, sinew

Condition: a few breaks in the sinew

59.5” h x 11” w (151 x 28 cm)

SOLD

Cf. Glenbow Museum (1987: 157, fig. 141) and Fitzhugh and Kaplan (1982: 35, fig. 6).

REFERENCES

Fitzhugh, William W., and Susan A. Kaplan. Inua: Spirit World of the Bering Sea Eskimo.

Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1982.

Glenbow Museum. The Spirit Sings: Artistic Traditions of Canadas First Peoples.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1987.