In pulling the toboggan over the snow the traveller would sink deep and become tired with only ordinary foot covering, so the Amerind invented a shoe expressly for snow travel. This is familiar to almost everybody, but a brief description will be added for the sake of those who may not have seen it. There are two kinds of snow-shoe; those represented by the Norwegian ski, made of wood, long and slender, and not used in America before their introduction from Europe. The only wooden shoe recorded is an Eskimo one made in the same shape as their others. The other kind of snow-shoe[248] is the Amerind one made by bending to an oval shape a slender piece of wood for a frame, and filling the interval with rawhide netting; and it was in use all over North America, where snow remained for any length of time. Among some tribes these shoes were “rights and lefts,” but as a rule they were interchangeable. They are generally the shape of a long, pointed oval, but some are almost round. There are two crossbars to hold the frame in shape, and also to form supports for the toe and heel. Some shoes were four or five feet long and seven or eight inches wide, and turned up at the forward end, while others were short and broad and not turned up, the interval between being filled by a series in great variety. The foot is held in position by suitable thongs or straps. These shoes are now in common use by the whites. [Illustration: ESKIMO SNOW-SHOE, POINT BARROW, ALASKA.] [Illustration: CANOES OF THE NORTH-WEST COAST Models of the family or transportation type. Hunting and fishing canoes are similar. All these boats are hollowed from single cedar logs, and then somewhat widened by spreading. They often carry a great number of persons ]