Keywords: Raquetteur
Item 33640
International Snowshoe Convention program, Lewiston-Auburn, 1950
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries Date: 1950 Location: Lewiston; Auburn Media: Ink on paper
Item 25356
Snowshoe competition souvenir, 1950
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries Date: 1950 Location: Lewiston; Berlin Media: Wood, yarn, metal
Exhibit
In the early 1600s, French explorers and colonizers in the New World quickly adopted a Native American mode of transportation to get around during the harsh winter months: the snowshoe. Most Northern societies had some form of snowshoe, but the Native Americans turned it into a highly functional item. French settlers named snowshoes "raquettes" because they resembled the tennis racket then in use.
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