Native American Snowshoes

Cisco’s Gallery offers a collection of antique and vintage Native American snowshoes representing traditional forms developed for winter travel across northern North America. Typically constructed with bent wooden frames and rawhide webbing, snowshoe shapes and sizes varied according to terrain, snow conditions, intended use and regional tradition. The collection includes examples associated with Algonquin, Cree, Ojibwe, Penobscot and other northern Woodlands and Subarctic peoples.