DCHP-3

marrow fat

Hist. or Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a choice butterlike substance rendered from the bones of buffalo and other large animals and used by the Indians and traders as butter and as an ingredient of pemmican.

Quotations

1717
These Indians gave me a Side of Moose flesh, Dry'd, & Another of Deers flesh, & 2 pretty bigg bladders of Marrow fatt. . . .
1862
Send to Fort for potatoes, milk & marrow fat.
1931
. . . the train wound its slow way back to Pembina laden with . . . 556 bladders of marrow grease.
1947
Clean Marrow fat rendered down like white butter.