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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a game-bag of woven babiche (def. 1) used by Indian hunters.
See: babiche(def. 1)
Quotations
1894
The hunting-bag which is used by all the Indians of the far north [is] made from "Babiche," or narrow strips of reindeer skin woven into a fine mesh, and trimmed with little tassels of thong headed with porcupine-quills.
1949
. . . the charred, blackened little corpse thrust its head ludicrously out of the babiche hunting bag she had slung over her shoulder.