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swallow-tail snowshoe

• a kind of snowshoe common among the Indians of the northeast of Canada, used for travel through deep, soft snow and underbrush. See picture at snowshoe.

  See also: beavertail snowshoe  elbow snowshoe  

  • 1916  [Caption] Swallow-tail type.
  • 1965  One is relatively broad, rounded in front and pointed in back. This type is sometimes referred to as the "swallow-tail" snowshoe.