Sentences with deerskin
deer·skin
D d - A deerskin jacket
- The moccasin maker had a pile of deer-skin on the table, waiting to be cut out. Nichole wore a pair of deerskin gloves because she said she could feel more through them.
- The women wore deerskin dresses, leggings, moccasins, and petticoats made of woven nettle or thistle fibers.
- Charlie Palmer removed his walnut-colored canvas field coat and deerskin shooting gloves.
- The hunter exchanged twenty deerskins for a bottle of whiskey at the trading post.
- The trapper wore deerskins because they were softer than cow leather garments and rustled less than canvas.
- One could almost believe that at any moment Scott and his men would come shuffling in, hang up their deerskin coats and start boiling a brew.
- The men wore deerskin breechcloths.
- A deerskin jacket.
- The fundamental item of men's clothing was a breechcloth made of a strip of deerskin or fabric.
- The Mohican decorated their deerskin clothing, baskets, and other artefacts with quillwork, corn husks, beads, feathers, and paint.
- With her long black braids and beaded deerskin dress, Rosebud Yellow Robe was an intriguing presence, holding audiences spellbound with her renditions of traditional Indian stories and her demonstrations of native crafts.
- Traditional clothing for men consisted of a breech-cloth, deerskin leggings, a shirt, and, in winter, moccasins.
- By the end of the eighteenth century, trade cloth replaced deerskin as the basic clothing material.
- He survived by eating his deerskin boots.
- Women wore a short skirt and sometimes a deerskin shirt.
- For ceremonies, the men wore a deerskin shirt decorated with paint, feathers, porcupine-quills and scalps.
- More recent Indian medicine men carried charms, fetishes and sacred talismans in similar deerskin bags that must have been a potent symbol of tribal authority.
- During warm months the Ojibwa slept on cedar bough mattresses, each person wrapped in a bearskin or deerskin robe.