DCHP-3

parfleche bag

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a container made from a sheet of rawhide, usually buffalo hide, folded into a kind of envelope and laced to make an efficient bag.

See: parfleche(def. 2)

Quotations

1909
The Indian life is to the white life as the parfleche pouch--to this.
1938
Here braves . . . stored . . . commodities in painted parfleche bags for the forthcoming journey to York Factory.