DCHP-1 Online
Northland string 
strips of leather, or thongs, made from the hide of a moose, caribou, etc. used for laces, threads, netting, etc.
See also: babiche (def. 1)
- 1896 The woman . . . scrapes and tans the moose and caribou hides, from the latter of which she afterwards makes babiche (Northland string) by cutting it into strips an eighth of an inch wide.
- 1896 The woman . . . scrapes and tans the moose and caribou hides, from the latter of which she afterwards makes babiche (Northland string) by cutting it into strips an eighth of an inch wide.