Three Styles of Nlaka'pamux Snowshoe

Three of at least six styles of snowshoe used by the Nlaka'pamux (Thompson) people, drawn for James Teit's 1900 Jesup North Pacific Expedition monograph The Thompson Indians of British Columbia. Frames were bent from mountain maple or yew and netted with twisted deer hide strings, with the toe turned up, and an animal tail or eagle feather was often tied at the heel. The same winter technology carried Secwepemc hunters and families across the snow of the interior plateau.

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