EXPLANATION OF PLATE 5. 
Snowshoes worn by Montagnais and Naskapi Indians (Algonkian) of Quebec and 
Labrador, Canada. 
FIGURE 1. The Beaver-tail variety, 27 inches long and 26 inches wide. North 
Shore of Gulf of St. Lawrence. 
Private Collection, Montreal. 
FIGURE 2. The Swallow-tail variety, 36 inches long and 123 inches wide. North 
Shore of Gulf of St. Lawrence. 
Private Collection, Montreal. 
FIGURE 2a. Another form of the Swallow-tail variety from the same district. It is 
373 inches long and 20 inches wide. 
Private Collection, Montreal. 
FIGURE 3. The Oval two-bar variety from the same district. 24 inches long and 17 
inches in width. The attachment of the foot-filling to the frame is protected 
by a strip of rawhide. 
Victoria Memorial Museum, Ottawa, Canada. 
Ficures 4 and 5 show the single-bar variety, one with the cross-bar under the 
foot and the other with the bar towards the front. The dimensions are not 
given but they are about 18 or 20 inches in length. From the Labrador Coast. 
Eleventh Annual Report of The Bureau of Ethnology. 
All of the Snowshoes in Plate 5 are flat, and are neatly made. In the 
wider varieties the cross-bars are curved. 
