{"id":468,"date":"2012-02-13T01:16:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T01:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/gwichin\/"},"modified":"2012-03-30T17:44:31","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T17:44:31","slug":"snowshoes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/gwichin\/artifacts\/snowshoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowshoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"intro-quote row\">\u201cIn ts\u2019ii deii days, snowshoes, eih, were the main means of transport in a land covered by snow for eight months of the year. They made it possible to hunt in areas that a hunter travelling on foot would have been unable to reach. They allowed the families to move camp. They were sometimes even used as snow shovels when the families set up camp at a new site. Other means of transport have changed: the Gwichya Gwich\u2019in began to use dog teams when the fur traders arrived; skidoos have replaced dog teams, but today\u2019s hunter and trapper relies on snowshoes as much as did his ancestor during ts\u2019ii deii days.\u201d<br \/>\n<span class=\"intro-quote-teller\">\u2014 Michael Heine et al., 2007<\/span><\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<div class=\"intro-quote row\">\u201cThe frame was coloured with red ochre, tsaih. Traditionally, only the women\u2019s snowshoes were coloured &#8230; When taking tsaih, it was important to leave something else in place. If this was not done, bad weather, or even a storm, might be caused &#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n<span class=\"intro-quote-teller\">\u2014 Michael Heine et al., 2007<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn ts\u2019ii deii days, snowshoes, eih, were the main means of transport in a land covered by snow for eight months of the year. They made it possible to hunt in areas that a hunter travelling on foot would have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/gwichin\/artifacts\/snowshoes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":300,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"artifact.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/gwichin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/gwichin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/gwichin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/gwichin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/gwichin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/gwichin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2873,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/gwichin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/468\/revisions\/2873"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/gwichin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/gwichin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}