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Definition of Parfleches
1. parfleche [n] - See also: parfleche
Lexicographical Neighbors of Parfleches
Literary usage of Parfleches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Technique of Some South American Feather-work by Charles Williams Mead (1908)
"Ornamentation of Gros Ventre parfleches. Fig. 1, Museum No. 50-1726; Fig. ...
Square Designs on parfleches and Bags 170 11. Design on Bag 177 12. ..."
2. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1909)
"The remaining bordered parfleches present individual features in the center ...
The parfleches without square-triangular borders are sometimes decorated in ..."
3. Traditions of the Skidi Pawnee by George Amos Dorsey (1904)
"The other hides she scraped, 1 did not tan them, and made little tipis of them ;
so in these th stored the meat that they had dried, tied up in parfleches. ..."
4. Memoirs of the American Folk-lore Society by American Folklore Society (1904)
"The boy killed the buffalo, and they both helped to jerk the meat so that it was
thin and easily dried. After the meat was dried, the girl made parfleches, ..."
5. The Plains of the Great West and Their Inhabitants: Being a Description of by Richard Irving Dodge (1876)
"When cold the parfleches are closed and tightly tied up. The contents so prepared
will keep ... The thickest hides are selected for shields, parfleches, &c. ..."
6. The Pawnee: Mythology (Part I) by George Amos Dorsey (1906)
"His friends told him that they were to send many robes, seven parfleches filled
with dried ... His relatives sent robes, and parfleches filled with meat, ..."
7. The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens by Hazard Stevens (1900)
"However, two parfleches of pemmican of one hundred pounds each were found among
the goods left by the exploring party two years before. ..."
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