deerskin

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

caribou hide, widely used for clothing and tents by Indians and Eskimos in the North.

Quotations

1735

Our powder we keep wrapped up with deerskins which being a very safe method has been well approved of. . . .

1774

Traded a little Meat and some Parchment Deerskins for Snow shoe Netting.

1895

Then again he offered the Great Slave women to marry, and fifty tents of deerskin for the making of a village.

1963

. . . I had enough to do to keep from freezing, tho' I had on a hairy deerskin coat, and was warmly clad.

2n.

a robe or blanket made of caribou hide.

1931

A platform about two feet above the floor . . . was covered with deerskins.

1958

Frequently the writer has encountered native trappers with two deerskins and two Hudson's Bay "Point" Blankets on the front of the sled. . . .