Delicate grace and meticulous workmanship, combined in a harmonious blend of function and art, makes these Native style snowshoes one of the finest products of its kind

Cree style snowshoes

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Talking shoes with Henri

Swallowtail Snowshoes

Snowshoes and deerhide

Fancy Elbow

"Fancy Beavertail"

Powder pigment is applied to color these "Fancy Attikamek style Snowshoes"

GOODESHOES

Large fancy Beavertail snowshoes

Snowshoes made by Henri Vaillancourt

Completed woven geometric patterns in the toe section

Bending birch staves over the knee limbers up the wood fibers

Freeze scrapeing a deer hide well below -0 degrees produces the finest quality rawhide for laceing snowshoes

Compare the weave size with a standard bookmatch

Outside the warm tent snowshoes are waiting

"Fun in the Snow"

Beavertail snowshoe tracks

Very old large beavertail shoes at the Sayner Museum

Delicate grace and meticulous workmanship

Winter camping at -48 degrees. Tucker Lake Feb 1996

Elbow style snowshoes of the " Montagnais"

Many hours are spent weaving these complex geometric patterns into the weave.

The fanciest of the fancy

Attikamek fancy snowshoes are the most challenging snowshoes to build due to the complexity of the weave.