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Their chief took certain charms from an otter-skin bag and tied them around the necks of his men.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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Their chief took certain charms from an otter-skin bag and tied them around the necks of his men.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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Their chief took certain charms from an otter-skin bag and tied them around the necks of his men.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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Their chief took certain charms from an otter-skin bag and tied them around the necks of his men.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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Among other highlights is a complete 1790s Anishinaabe suit of clothing – leggings, shirt, silver ornaments, otter-skin bag and moccasins ornamented with loom-woven porcupine quills – that has been traced to Fort Michilimackinac in the Upper Great Lakes.
'Infinity Of Nations' Exhibit Opening At The National Museum Of The American Indian AP 2010
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A plump-faced young shopman with red hair, in an otter-skin cap, left an old peasant woman in charge of the shop — a sort of feminine Caliban, employed in cleaning a stove made marvelous by
The Magic Skin 2007
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That she had stuck fast and in danger so long was simply because the cocked hats were too proud to give ear to the wisdom in an old otter-skin.
Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004
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All one side of her hair came down, in a way to be remembered, upon the left and fairest part of my favourite otter-skin waistcoat; and her head as well would have lain there doubtless, but for the danger of walking so.
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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At last he came upon an elderly, crusty Jew, who sold second-hand articles, and from whom he purchased a dress of Scotch stuff, a large mantle, and a fine otter-skin pelisse, for which he did not hesitate to pay seventy-five pounds.
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Amongst these central tribes the men generally have an otter-skin, or some small scrap about as large as a pocket-handkerchief, which is barely sufficient to cover their backs as low down as their loins.
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