EXPLANATION OF PLATE 2. 
Types of Snowshoe worn by Canadian and Alaskan Athabaskan Indians:— 
FIGURE 1. A Bristol Bay variety 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. 
United States National Museum. 
FIGURE 2. Obtained at Sitka and said to have come from the interior near the head 
waters of the Yukon. Its main peculiarity is the hexagonal meshed foot- 
netting looped around the frame as in the Algonkian types. 
United States National Museum. 
FIGURE 3. From North Bay Alaska 46 inches long and 103 inches wide right and 
left foot shoes distinct. The filling in the toe space is attached in Algonkian 
style through V-shaped holes. The heel-space is filled with a series of longitud- 
inal cords converging at the tail as shown in the figure. 
United States National Museum. 
FIGURE 4. This specimen is 48 inches long and 11 inches wide. It is short and wide 
and well turned up at the toe. The attachment to the frame is Athabaskan 
throughout and it is a good specimen of weaving. It came from Sitka, Alaska. 
United States National Museum. 
Ficure 5. A Kutchin shoe from the interior country, the exact locality being un- 
known. The shoe is fairly well made and presents peculiarities in the weaving 
of the toe-spacing, part of it being in longitudinal filaments. From the three 
crosses it is judged that the snowshoe comes from the vicinity of some of the 
interior Canadian Missions. 
Victoria Memorial Museum, Ottawa, Canada. 
