1969.26.0012a-b
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snöskor
- Object description
Snöskor. Längd: c:a 67 cm. Största bredd: 32 cm. Inköpta av Mr. Carl P. Smith för 30 dollars. Mr. Smith att snöskorna skulle komma från aluterna. Förmodligen härmed aleuterna.
Daniel Sutherland Davidson har i arbetet Snowshoes, Memoirs of the American Philosophical Soceity vol. V1, 1937, indelat snöskorna i olika kategorier med utgångspunkt med utgångspunkt från nätverkstekniken. Snöskorna skulle då i så fall hänföras till kategorin Transitional Weave. Finns avbildad på sid. 72 och 94. davidson skriver följande: " A form of netting which appears to be a local transitional style in the process of changing from the rectangular to the hexagonal pattern is well illustrated in a number of snowshoes from the Eskimo of Prince William Sound, Great Beat Lake, Kutchin Khotana, Sekani, and Tahltan ( Fig. 30, d; 46, a,b). In apperance, this pattern is a rectangular mesh; but it is laced diagonally to the sides of the frame instead of parallel and perpendicular to them, as in the usual examples of rectangular netting. Although descriptions of the process of this style of netting is not available, it seems apparent that it would be not difficult, by the continuing of the strand horizontally from side to side, to transform this style into tye hexagonal pattern. That this manner of netting may be an attemt to emulate hexagonal weaving would also seem to be indicated by its appearances in areas peripherally located in respect to the latter and by its contiguity with typical rectangular occurrences in the Alaskan and Lower Mackenzie regions." (katalogkort/originalbeskrivning)
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