DCHP-3

rabbit(-skin) robe

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a warm blanket or robe made by cutting the skins of rabbits, or hares, into long strips and weaving them together, long used by the Indians and adopted by others in the Northwest.

Quotations

1915
When I saw the dance, the chief had a woven rabbit skin robe over his head and shoulders.
1940
In the shade of the trees near the water's edge, an Indian woman was seen weaving a rabbit-robe. . . .
1963
Within lay the injured child, among a collection of shabby blankets and rabbit-skin robes.