elk-skin

On the trail in an elk-skin dress she was a handsome girl.

Centennial Michener, James 1974

McKeag did so, and into the store came a seventeen-year-old girl in elk-skin dress and deerskin moccasins.

Centennial Michener, James 1974

When she saw them she stopped, smoothed down her elk-skin dress and adjusted the quills about her neck.

Centennial Michener, James 1974

One lovely day in May, this girl came to the fort and brought Gladwyn a pair of elk-skin moccasins.

New National Fourth Reader J. Marshall Hawkes

In a spacious tent, brightly lighted with torches of pitch-pine, the conjurer, wrapped in a large elk-skin, and corded with about forty yards of elk-hide lariat -- "bound up like an Egyptian mummy" -- was laid down in the midst of the assembly, in full view of all.

French Pathfinders in North America William Henry Johnson

They carry a circular shield, about eighteen inches in diameter, which is likewise made of the elk-skin; but in addition to its thickness it is hardened by fire and painted, and is not only arrow-proof, but proof against the knife and the tomahawk also.

Adventures of the first settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River 1913

Their war garments are of two kinds, one is termed clemal, of elk-skin, dressed and worked to the thickness of nearly half an inch, and arrow-proof.

Adventures of the first settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River 1913

When Itsá was gone, Nayé̆nayĕzganĭ arose, took off the elk-skin suit, and addressed the frightened Eagle children:

The North American Indian Edward S. Curtis 1910

Plan by Clark of Fort Clatsop, from the elk-skin cover of his

Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904

The evening of that day, an Indian woman who had been employed by Major Gladwyn to make him a pair of Indian shoes, out of curious elk-skin, brought them home.

Camps and Firesides of the Revolution 1902