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fire-bag
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a soft leather pouch, usually decorated, used by the Indians of the old Northwest to carry flint-and-steel, tinder, tobacco, etc.
Quotations
1819
The Indian . . . tying up his Fire bag very composedly gave two or three hems. . . .
1879
The native carries a fire-bag--a long leather bag, containing pipe, tobacco, knife, flint and steel, and . . . the inner bark of the grey willow.
1957
"An Indian never admits anything, even if you catch him with your scalp on his medicine pole and your teeth in his fire bag."