Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
February 1814
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 71
Notes:
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography, Harvard University, acquired a number of snowshoes in 1899 from Moses Kimball's Boston Museum. Kimball and P. T. Barnum jointly purchased many of the Peale collections when they were sold about 1849. This donation cannot be positively identified with any of the extant snowshoes but it may have resembled the southeastern Ojibwa snowshoes at the Peabody pictured here.
