DCHP-1 Online
parfleche bag 
a container made from a sheet of rawhide, usually buffalo hide, folded into a kind of envelope and laced to make an efficient bag.
See also: parfleche (def. 2)
- 1909 The Indian life is to the white life as the parfleche pouch--to this.
- 1938 Here braves . . . stored . . . commodities in painted parfleche bags for the forthcoming journey to York Factory.
- 1909 The Indian life is to the white life as the parfleche pouch--to this.