Pair of Snowshoes
Nicolas Panadis, Abenaki / Canadian, 1850 - 1947
Abenaki
Wabanaki
First Nation
Northeast Woodlands
Woodlands
Dr. Gordon M. Day
about 1925
Ash wood, birch wood, rawhide, and yarn
Overall: 35 1/2 × 11 7/16 in. (90.1 × 29 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase
159.28.14452
Geography
Place Made: Odanak ( Abenaki First Nations Reserve), Canada, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Tools and Equipment: Snow and Ice
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Woodlands
Not on view
Publication History
Jane C. Beck, Always in Season: Folk Art and Traditional Culture in Vermont, Montpelier, Vermont: Vermont Council on the Arts, 1982, 142 pp., ill. p. 46.
Provenance
Made by Nicolas Panadis (1850-1947) for Gertrude Wawanolet; purchased by Dr. Gordon M. Day (1911-1993), Research Associate, Anthropology Department, 1957-1966, for the Dartmouth College Museum, 1959.
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