Reddy, whose father owned a sawmill, volunteered to provide
us with strips of hickory from which to make the frames.
The Sioux Snow Shoe.
[Illustration: Fig.25. Sioux Shoe.]
[Illustration: Fig. 26. Frame of the Sioux Shoe.]
The Sioux snow shoe was the first type we tackled. Two strips of hickory 4
feet long and 3/4 inch square in section, were bent over a pair of
spreaders and securely fastened together at each end. The spreaders were
about 12 inches long and located about 15 inches apart. They were notched
at the ends, as shown in Fig. 26, to receive the side strips, which were
not fastened together until after they had been nailed to the spreaders.
We found that the most satisfactory way of fastening together the ends of
the hickory strips was to bolt them together. When the frame was
completed, we began the tedious process of weaving in the filling or web
of the snow shoe. First we cut notches in the edges of the spreaders,
spacing these notches an inch apart. Then we procured several balls of
heavy twine at the corner store. Tying one end of the cord to the right
side stick about three inches below the forward spreader, we stretched a
strand down to the notch at the left end of the lower spreader.
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