This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...at each excursion and are gathered into a straight selvage. This central web is also looped to the crossbars. The shoe is attached to the foot by a soft band of buckskin forming toe and heel loop.i Example No. 90149 (fig. 87) is a pair of snowshoes collected in Ungava, north of Labrador, by Lucien Turner. In ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...at each excursion and are gathered into a straight selvage. This central web is also looped to the crossbars. The shoe is attached to the foot by a soft band of buckskin forming toe and heel loop.i Example No. 90149 (fig. 87) is a pair of snowshoes collected in Ungava, north of Labrador, by Lucien Turner. In most particulars this specimen resembles that last described, excepting that the width is still more disproportionate to the length and near the heel the frame on either side bends outward and then sharply inward, forming a tongue-shaped end, and quite aptly called a beaver tail. Many of the long, slender Athapascan shoes reverse the process and near the heel begin snddenly to narrow. In this example the shoe is made of two pieces of wood in form of a loop or oxbow spliced together on the sides of the foot space, the hinder bow laid inside the forward bow precisely as in the Aino specimen. The spliced portions are held in position by the loops of the 'Turner, Eleventh Ann. Rep. Bureau of Ethnology, pl. xi. H. Mis. 90, pt. 2 26 Fig. 8-. NETTED SNOWSHOE, SWALLOW TAIL PATTERN, WORN BY THE NENENOT INDIANS, LABRADOR. From a figure, n the Eierenth Aonual Report o( the Burma of Ethuolagy. Cat. No. 90i5i. V. S. N. M. Collected hy I M. Turner. foot netting passing around them. Examples Nos. 90145 to 90153, collected by Turner, are also of the same general form and finish. One of these is shown in fig. 88. They are from Ungava, and were used, as were the others just described, by the Nenenot. In these examples the frames are made in one piece, spliced at the side of the foot space and held fast by the loops of the netting which encircle it. In all of the specimens gathered by Lucien M. Turner the mechanical work is excellent. The babiche is...
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