porcupine-quill

Its delicate porcupine-quill embroidery invested it with the power to "ensure the survival of a hunter's family and community," as its label explains.

Artifacts to Artworks Lee Rosenbaum 2012

But my grandmother was the head woman of our tribe, and her beadwork and dyed porcupine-quill work was the finest you ever saw, Ruth Fielding.

Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies Alice B. Emerson

As soon as the youth has returned from the war-path or the chase, he puts on his porcupine-quill embroidered moccasins and leggings, and folds his best robe about him.

Indian Boyhood 1902

The nickel-plated revolver he could feel in the bosom of his sad-coloured robe, the amulet was on his neck; begging-gourd, rosary, and ghost-dagger (Mr Lurgan had forgotten nothing) were all to hand, with medicine, paint-box, and compass, and in a worn old purse-belt embroidered with porcupine-quill patterns lay

Kim Rudyard Kipling 1900

As soon as the youth has returned from the war-path or the chase, he puts on his porcupine-quill embroidered moccasins and leggings, and folds his best robe about him.

Indian Boyhood Charles Alexander Eastman 1898

Their dress consists of a leather shirt trimmed with human hair and porcupine-quill work, and leggings of leather.

Pioneers in Canada Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892

Foderè mentions a penis about the size of a porcupine-quill on an adult male, and Hammond mentions one of the size of a lead-pencil in diameter and two inches in length.

History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Peter Charles Remondino 1886

He carried the bones of one of his dead relations, dried and wrapped in skins gaily ornamented with porcupine-quill work; and it was his custom to lay these bones before the tribe and request that everybody blow smoke on them.

Heroes of the Middle West The French Mary Hartwell Catherwood 1874

Washington had one man shot dead at his side, and three men wounded; but his Indian allies, protected as they were by the rising ground, came off without the loss of a single feather or porcupine-quill.

The Farmer Boy, and How He Became Commander-In-Chief Morrison Heady 1872

Indian girl's costume, which was somewhat elaborate, for, being a chief's daughter, her dress was in many respects beautiful -- especially those portions of it, such as the leggings and the head-dress, which were profusely ornamented with coloured beads and porcupine-quill work.

The Walrus Hunters A Romance of the Realms of Ice 1859