deer-hide

There was the time that Har, my brother, and I, sleeping and pursuing in turn, ever hounding the wild stallion through the daytime and night, and in a wide circle that met where the sleeping one lay, drove the stallion unresting through hunger and thirst to the meekness of weakness, so that in the end he could but stand and tremble while we bound him with ropes twisted of deer-hide.

Chapter 21 2010

In his case the shoes were quite sophisticated, made with a bearskin sole, deer-hide uppers and a tree bark netting and probably a wooden frame to distribute the weight.

Weatherwatch: Snowshoes date back to Asia over 6,000 years ago 2011

The deer-hide war shirt, with locks of human hair dangling from its chest, belonged to Chief Black Bird of the Oglala Sioux.

At Auction: Sioux Shirt Woven Into History 2011

Cork could see no rhyme or reason to what had been placed there: a bow made of hard maple with a deer-hide quiver full of arrow shafts whose featherings had long ago turned to dust; a colorfully beaded bandolier bag; a rag doll; a muzzle-loader with a rotted stock and beside it a powder horn, still in good condition; a woven blanket; a coil of rope.

Vermilion Drift William Kent Krueger 2010

She wore strange garments made of dark leather, simple breeches and an odd cape-shirt that seemed to have been made of an entire brain-tanned deer-hide.

Widows and Orphans R. Daniel Lester 2010

From a deer-hide pouch hanging on the wall, the Mide took a stone pipe with a wood stem.

Heaven’s Keep William Kent Krueger 2009

From a deer-hide pouch hanging on the wall, the Mide took a stone pipe with a wood stem.

Heaven’s Keep William Kent Krueger 2009

From a deer-hide pouch hanging on the wall, the Mide took a stone pipe with a wood stem.

Heaven’s Keep William Kent Krueger 2009

This box has a top, back, and front, but where the sides ought to be there are curtains of deer-hide, which are a very imperfect protection from wind and rain.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

It was filled with deer-hide bags gone brittle with time, each as large as a softball.

THUNDER BAY WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER 2007