buffalo-robes

Six weeks 'hard travelling by rivers and lakes, now dragging the boats round rapids, now sleeping in "buffalo-robes" on the hard ground, brought the party to the first stage of their journey.

A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole

One year he marketed 50 buffalo-robes, 39,080 muskrats, 2050 pounds of deer skins,

Old Fort Snelling 1819-1858 Marcus L. Hansen

A bundle of blankets and buffalo-robes lay by the open grave.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 Various

Very soon she learns to take care of the baby; to watch over it in the lodge, or carry it on her back while the mother is away for wood or dressing buffalo-robes.

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain

Noticing this, the lieutenant said he would like to see the dead man's face, and, preceded by Washington, we moved toward the bundle of blankets and buffalo-robes that lay by the side of the grave.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 Various

At night the occupants of the lodge spread their skins and buffalo-robes on the ground, and then men, women, and children, stretching themselves upon them, went to sleep, with their feet to the fire.

Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Various

They have divested themselves of their buffalo-robes, and appear naked to the breech-clout and armed with bows and arrows, tomahawks, and scalping knives.

Woman on the American Frontier William Worthington Fowler

The Indians then gather their buffalo-robes about them and quickly withdraw.

Woman on the American Frontier William Worthington Fowler

The cabins, like those of the white settlers, were square and built of logs; the wigwams were conical, with a frame of slender poles gathered together at the top and covered with buffalo-robes, dressed and smoked to render them impervious to the weather.

Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Various

Washington threw back the buffalo-robes, and a bright gleam of the cottonwood fire disclosed the upturned face of the dead Nez Percé and lightened up the long, thick locks of glossy blue-black hair.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 Various