EXPLANATION OF PLATE 3. 
Western Cree Types of Algonkian Showshoes: 
FIGURE 1. The usual Western Cree type with a two-piece frame pointed at both 
ends and well turned up in front. From the Province of Manitoba, 6 feet long 
and 144 inches wide. It has an extra cross-bar in both the heel and toe spaces 
and a twisted rawhide cross-string near the front. The shoes are almost symet- 
rical and neatly made. 
Montreal Snowshoe Club, Montreal. 
FiGuRE 2. Western Cree from Pembina River, Alberta. A two-piece frame 
pointed fore and aft and well turned up in front. 54 inches long and 12} inches 
wide. The shoes are right and left with two extra rounded cross-bars in the toe- 
spacing. A peculiar arrangement of the slings attaching foot-netting to front 
cross bar. 
Private Collection, Montreal. 
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Figure 3. Mackenzie River Basin. exact locality unknown. Symmetrical shoes 
52 inches long by 16 inches wide. A two-piece frame spliced in front and bent 
into a rounded form and finished with a trailer behind. The bend in front 
turns sharply upward at right angles. The frame is oval in cross-section, 
tapers both ways from the middle and is neatly made. An interesting shoe 
and probably a transitional form between Western Cree and Athabaskan types. 
Victoria Memorial Museum, Ottawa, Canada. 
FicurE 4. Western Cree from Lake Athabasca, 56 inches long by 134 inches wide. 
The usual unsymmetrical double-pointed frame well turned up in front with 
extra cross-bars in heel and toe-spacings. Neatly made and ornamented with 
tufts of wool. 
Victoria Memorial Museum, Ottawa, Canada. 
FIGURE 5. A Chipewyan showshoe from Fond du Lac, 37} inches long and 8 inches 
wide. Right and left but not markedly so. The typical Western Cree form 
well turned up in front. The Chipewyans are Athabaskans and this isa Western 
Cree intrusion into this area. 
Victoria Memorial Museum, Ottawa, Canada. 
FIGURE 6. A Sioux Snowshoe from an unknown locality. It conforms to the 
Western Cree type with the double pointed two-piece frame well turned up in 
front. The shoes are right and left and they have two extra cross-bars in the 
front spacing. The length is 33 inches and the width 84 inches. 
Chateau du Ramezay Collection, Montreal, Canada. 
