Snowshoe pictureSnowshoes: A Gift From Gluskabe - Maine Indian Snowshoes
Introduction
Maine Indian Snowshoes
Northeastern Snowshoes
Franco-American Snowshoes
Contemporary Snowshoes
Miniature Snowshoes
Exhibit Credits

A. M. "Mellie" Dunham Snowshoes
1909

Made as a special order for Admiral Peary's Arctic expedition in 1909. Dunham, a Norway, Maine farmer, made sixty pairs of snowshoes for Peary's expedition. The rawhide for the shoe's infilling came from his own copws and he "employed" family members, including his wife "Gram," to fill his snowshoe order.

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