Title

Akimak

Creator

Patrick Maranda

Subject

Anicinabe ocitowin (Arts and crafts)

Akimak (Snowshoes)

Contemporanéité

Related to an ongoing practice, as it was

Famille

Maranda

Description

Pair of foliate snowshoes. Outer frame in wood. Inside cut from 2 transverse wooden bars to which the skin straps forming the braid are attached. Fine sinew braiding at the ends, looser in the centre. Decorated with tufts of wool around the edges.

Men and women worked together to make snowshoes: the former made the wooden frame, the latter braided the interior. Just as the choice and preparation of the wood used for the barrel, the cutting and braiding of the skin strips required a great deal of technical know-how.

The decorations around the edges of the snowshoes, as well as their condition, indicate that they were intended for touring, not for hunting or logging.

Format

Object

Étendue

Length: 76 cm ; Width: 33 cm ; Height: 3.5 cm

Matériaux

Sinew

Moose (Mos)

Wood (Mitik)

Wool

Mitik

Technique de fabrication

Carved

Braided

Arched

Date Created

1975

Titre antérieur

Snowshoe [Musée de la Civilisation]
Title changed by the Anicinabemowin term.

Source

https://collections.mcq.org/objets/10579

Contributor

Musée de la Civilisation (sharing)

Roger Wylde (description)

Date Modified

2025-02-17

Access Rights

Open access

License

Protected by copyrights

Identifier

MdlC75-1170

Transmission

Pibon, Pipon

Sigwan