bear-paw (snow) shoe

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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an almost circular snowshoe, varying considerably in size, used especially by the eastern Algonkians.

Quotations

1936

All he could obtain was two pairs of "Bear Paw" shoes, which are about the same size as the face of an ordinary tennis racket. . . .

1939

Their white parkas, caribou moccasins, and great, circular bear-paw snowshoes made them a colourful lot.

1964

Some of it fell on his bear-paw snow-shoes.