buffalo-skin coracle

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a coracle-like boat of saplings and hide used by prairie Indians. See picture at bull boat.

Quotations

1953

[The Reverend John McDougal] describes many adventures in fording the [Red Deer] river by buffalo-skin coracle, by wagon, and on horseback.