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  • This huge open space contained a massive buffalo-hide press.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • You will get to know the store well: the buffalo-hide carpet; a stiff pair of black riding boots by the door; and some beautiful casual clothes, such as cherry-red corduroys and navy cardigans, folded on top of a weathered picnic table.

    Ode to Handsome Darrell Hartman 2012

  • Brooklyn had to settle for a contemporary "shield"—a brightly colored glass circle by Marcus Amerman, Choctaw, decorated with images inspired by Lakota warrior Rain-in-the-Face's magisterial buffalo-hide shield, shown in the large photomural on the opposite wall.

    Shows That Defy Stereotypes Lee Rosenbaum 2011

  • This huge open space contained a massive buffalo-hide press.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • This huge open space contained a massive buffalo-hide press.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • This huge open space contained a massive buffalo-hide press.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • Banc was taken into a close-knit family group that consisted of thirty-five people who camped together in eight buffalo-hide tipis.

    EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

  • Comanches, meanwhile, carried a far more effective and battle-tested assortment of weapons: a disk-shaped buffalo-hide shield, a fourteen-foot plains lance, a sinew-backed bow, and a quiver of iron-tipped arrows.

    EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

  • That was when the Indians, who tended to rove in fragmented and widely dispersed groups during the spring and summer, headed for their winter camps, where they concentrated in villages whose sun-bleached buffalo-hide tipis snaked for miles along a few favorite streams.

    EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

  • An inlet was dug out from the river on the western side of the complex—the side which housed the mosque on the riverfront terrace—and here batches of sixty-two oxen went around in endless circles so that a waterwheel with buffalo-hide buckets could scoop water in turn and tilt it into an elevated aqueduct with channels open to the sky.

    Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010

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