Keywords: Montagnard Band
Item 18412
Montagnard Band, Lewiston, 1947
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries Date: 1947-06-22 Location: Lewiston Media: Photographic print
Item 25280
Le Montagnard Band, Lewiston, 1960
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries Date: 1960 Location: Lewiston Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
In the early 1600s, French explorers and colonizers in the New World quickly adopted a Native American mode of transportation to get around during the harsh winter months: the snowshoe. Most Northern societies had some form of snowshoe, but the Native Americans turned it into a highly functional item. French settlers named snowshoes "raquettes" because they resembled the tennis racket then in use.
