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pemmican bag
Fur Trade, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a strong bag made of buffalo rawhide sewn hair side out, used as a container for 90 pounds of pemmican (def. 1).
Quotations
1887
The pemmican itself, packed in skins, would afford a very efficient means of defence, if necessary, by throwing up an entrenchment with earth and pemmican bags.
1897
Women all busy stretching buffalo hides to make pemmican bags and pack cords.
1940
. . . one of the labourers had brought some things down in an old pemmican-sack and emptied them into a canoe.