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The Development of Snowshoes
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: Travel and Leisure |
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: 08 July 2008 07:00 |
Nearly every Native American tribe developed its own particular shape of shoe, the simplest and most primitive being those of the far north. The Inuit have two styles, one being triangular in shape and about 18 inches (45 cm) in length, and the other almost circular. Southward the shoe becomes gradually narrower and longer, the largest being the hunting snow-shoe of the Cree, which is nearly 6 ft. long (more than 1.5 meters) and turned up at the toe. The stereotypical snowshoe resembles a tennis racquet.Snowshoes were slowly adopted by Europeans in America, with the French voyageurs well in advance of British settlers. Snowshoes worn by lumberjacks are about 40 inches (1 m) long and broad in proportion, while the tracker\s shoe is over 5 feet long (1.5 m) and very narrow. This form was copied by the Canadian snowshoe clubs, but shortened to about 40 inches long (1 m) and 15 to 18 inches broad (about 40 to 45 cm), slightly turned up at the toe and terminating in a kind of tail behind. This is made very light for racing purposes, but much stouter for touring or hunting. The tail has the effect of keeping the shoe straight while walking.Traditional snowshoes are made of a single strip of some tough wood, usually white ash, curved round and fastened together at the ends and supported in the middle by a light cross-bar, the space within the frame thus made being filled with a close webbing of dressed caribou or neat\s-hide strips, leaving a small opening just behind the cross-bar for the toe of the moccasined foot. They are fastened to the moccasin by leather thongs, sometimes by buckles. Such shoes are still made and sold by native peoples.http://www.allsnowshoes.comoriginal article page
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