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beavertail snowshoe 
a type of snowshoe used by the Montagnais Indians of northern Quebec, having an oval or circular frame and a short tail. See picture at snowshoe.
See also: Eastern snowshoe snowshoe ((n.))
- 1941 The Mistassini hunters . . . use the "beaver-tail pattern. . . . In this snowshoe the smaller end of the oval, which always appears at the tail, has been elongated slightly more and constricted, giving the snowshoe a caudal appendage similar to that of the beaver.
- 1963 The strips [of white ash] are steamed and bent around the required patterns, which may be Montagnais, Beavertail, Bear Paw, Cree, Ojibwa, or some other type.
- 1941 The Mistassini hunters . . . use the "beaver-tail pattern. . . . In this snowshoe the smaller end of the oval, which always appears at the tail, has been elongated slightly more and constricted, giving the snowshoe a caudal appendage similar to that of the beaver.