Codex canadensis, page 19

Published January 11, 2015 at 594 × 388 in Snowshoes in New France / Les raquettes en Nouvelle-France
snowshoes; raquettes

Ca. 1675 depiction of snowshoes from page 19 of Louis Nicolas, S.J.’s ‘Codex Canadensis.’

See The Codex Canadensis and the writings of Louis Nicolas: the natural history of the New World, ed. François Marc Gagnon, with Réal Ouellet and Nancy Senior, McGill-Queen’s/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History (Tulsa, Okla.; Montréal: Gilcrease Museum ; McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2011).

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