SNOWSHOES FROM AZTEC RUIN 



Although winter storms seldom leave more than a few inches of snow upon the ground in the 

 vicinity of Aztec, sandals were an inadequate protection against even so slight a fall. I^ ^o^ise- 

 quence crude snowshoes were made from an oval loop of willow beneath which was lashed a bundle 

 of grass or husks. ^Vhen wearing these the traveler might go dry-shod and well protected from the 

 stinging cold of the snow 

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