EXPLANATION OF PLATE 1. 
FIGURE 1. Emergency Showshoe made from a slab of bark stiffened with a willow 
frame 29 inches long and 9} inches wide. Of Iroquois origin, from Brant 
County, Ontario. Victoria Memorial Museum, Ottawa, Canada. 
FIGURE 2. Emergency Snowshoe made by bending a sapling frame into the ordinary 
flat trailer form and weaving a rectangular meshed netting of withy bark. It 
is 303 inches long and 11 inches wide. Of Iroquois origin from Brant County, 
Ontario. Victoria Memorial Museum Ottawa Canada. 
FIGURE 3. Emergency Showshoe made from spruce boards sewed together with 
thongs. It isof Algonkian origin from Maniwaki Quebec, and is 93 inches long 
and 9 inches wide. Victoria Memorial Museum, Ottawa, Canada. 
FIGURE 4. Interior Salish from Lillooet, British Columbia. It is 24 inches long 
and 134 inches wide and has coarse netting. It hasa bent willow frame without 
cross bars, and is a little turned up in front. 
Victoria Memorial Museum, Ottawa, Canada. 
FIGURE 5. A rough Snowshoe from the Ute Indians of Utah witha bent willow 
frame, oval in outline. It is included here because it corresponds to a Salish 
Snowshoe from British Columbia which is represented by this number 5 in shape 
and by number 4 in mesh. This Salish snowshoe is locally known as The Bear 
Paw snowshoe. 
United States National Museum. 
FIGURE 6. Eskimo Snowshoe from the Alaskan Coast which is pointed at both 
ends and well turned up in front. It has 2 cross-bars and is 30 inches long and 
9 inches wide. The foot netting is in rectangular mesh wove through the sides 
of the frame in Eskimo style as described elsewhere. 
Victoria Memorial Museum Ottawa Canada. 
FIGURE 7. Eskimo Snowshoe from the mouth of the Yukon River. It is nearly 
flat and 363 inches long and 93 inches wide. Foot netting in ordinary rect- 
angular mesh. The toe and heel netting is destroyed but it was of a rudimentary 
form. It is a transitional form between Eskimo and Athabaskan shapes. 
United States National Museum. 
