Large Snowshoe Chair

Collection Type

  • Furniture

Date

1955-1965

GUSN

GUSN-327383

Description

Chair with a woven rawhide seat and back. Arched crest, bent wood arms and legs. One of a pair, the smaller of which has brass label: Hand Made Sno-Shu Chairs, Vermont Tubbs Inc. Wallingford, VT. Used at a house in Newton, Massachusetts.

Details

Descriptive Terms

chairs (furniture forms)
maple (wood)
rawhide
Chair
Chair

Additional Identification Number

1775.1
1223

Maker

Vermont Tubbs, Inc. (Maker)

Location of Origin

Walliingford, Vermont; Wallingford, Vermont

Dimensions

35 x 20 3/8 x 25 1/2 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Thomas Michie

Accession Number

2017.66.1

Places

Wallingford (Rutland county, Vermont)

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