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Snowshoe set on porch of wooden framed house
Snowshoe set on porch of wooden framed house
Object Number 2004.29.3256
Display Title Snowshoe set on porch of wooden framed house
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: "Montagnais Indians. / # II No. 9. (Bought in Quebec) 26" wide 25 3/4" long L. St. Lawrence 1910. / Gift of W. B. Cabot, Marlboro Street, Boston, 1919."
Keywords
  • Land Transport
  • Ethnographic
Subject
  • snowshoe
Department Photographic
Date 1910
Artist William Brooks Cabot
Culture
  • Montagnais
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada / Quebec
Additional Geographic Terms Subarctic shield and Mackenzie Borderlands; G. of St. Lawrence, lower; Mingar re
Materials Gelatin silver print adhered to Paperboard
Dimensions Overall: 7.62 x 10.16 cm (3 x 4 in.)
Provenance
Donor Donated by William Brooks Cabot

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