[DRUMMOND] THE CANADIAN SNOWSHOE 311 
is in hexagonal mesh attached to the frame through vertical holes in 
a keel, as described above. The foot-netting is rectangular in most 
of the examples given in plate 2 which illustrates this type, and shows 
a number of distinctive shapes and forms peculiar to different localities 
along the Alaskan coast. Most of the examples in this plate are from 
the fine collection of the Smithsonian Institute in which this particular 
type is well represented. The writer has never seen this shoe in use 
and knows it only from specimens. The rectangular foot-netting is 
reported to be peculiar to the Alaskan coast west of the Yukon drain- 
age, and the hexagonal foot-netting to the interior east of this. The 
writer would judge from this that the true Athabaskan type had 
hexagonal foot-netting as shewn in figure 2, plate 2, in which case the 
other examples are transitional forms between the Eskimoan and 
Athabaskan forms. Many of these shoes are neatly made and orna- 
mented with tufts of wool. 
Figure 1 is a Bristol Bay type 44 inches long and 9? inches wide. 
It is spatulate in form, well turned up in front and the outline is 
modified by each cross bar. 
Figure number 2 was obtained at Sitka, Alaska, but it is reported 
to be from the interior in the direction of the headwaters of the Yukon 
River. Its main peculiarity is the hexagonal foot-netting, looped 
around the frame as in the ordinary Algonkian type, but more roughly. 
The length of this snowshoe is not given. 
Number 3 came from Norton Bay, Alaska. It is 46 inches long 
and 103 inches wide. The two shoes represented by this specimen are 
made in rights and lefts. The filling in the toe-space is hexagonal, 
and from the description it is attached to the frame in Algonkian 
style. The foot-spacing is square-woven and quite rough. The 
peculiar arrangement in the heel spacing is shown in the figure. 
Number 4 is 48 inches long and 11 inches wide. It is a wide 
variety well turned up at the toe. The attachment is Athabaskan 
throughout, and it is a good specimen of weaving. It is reported to 
have come from the Chilkat and the netting is made of sinew twine. 
Specimen number 5 is a Kutchin shoe from some point well into 
the interior but not exactly known. It isa fairly good shoe presenting 
some peculiarities in the weaving of the toe-netting. The three 
crosses would indicate the maker to be from the vicinity of some of the 
interior Canadian Missions. 
Number 1, 2, 3 and 4 are from The United States National 
Museum. Number 5 is from The Victoria Memorial Museum, 
Ottawa. 
Sec. I & II, Sig. 5 
