“From caribou [or moose] leg skins, they made a long sled. The skins are slippery, and even when it is loaded, pulling [the sled] was easy. This is what they used for travelling and hunting.”
— Paul Bonnetplume, Teetł’it Gwich’in Elder, ca. 1970
(“Life in the Yukon”)
Catalogue Data
Materials:
moose-leg skin
Dimensions:
L. approx. 120 cm
Date:
1930s
Made by:
a member of the Tizya family, Old Crow, Yukon
Collected by:
Asen Balikci, Old Crow, Yukon, summer 1961
Catalogue Number:
CMCC VI-I-66
Manufacture and Use
About the Artifact
“Skin toboggan. Made of moose skin, from the lower part of the limbs. The hair is oriented in one direction, to...