Montagnais shoe

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a style of snowshoe associated with the Montagnais Indians of Northern Quebec and Labrador.

Quotations

1916

It is somewhat peculiar in shape and is possibly a transition between the Ojibwa and Montagnais snowshoe.

1941

The Montagnais shoe is the commonest form used throughout the Labrador Peninsula and is usually known simply as the Eastern snowshoe.

1964

Montagnais and Naskapi [shoes are] all made wide for travel in deep snow through underbrush.