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pemmican bag Fur Trade, Hist. 
a strong bag made of buffalo rawhide sewn hair side out, used as a container for 90 pounds of pemmican (def. 1).
See also: pemmican (def. 2b) taureau (def. 1)
- 1887 The pemmican itself, packed in skins, would afford a very efficient means of defence, if necessary, by throwing up an entrenchment with earth and pemmican bags.
- 1897 Women all busy stretching buffalo hides to make pemmican bags and pack cords.
- 1940 . . . one of the labourers had brought some things down in an old pemmican-sack and emptied them into a canoe.
- 1887 The pemmican itself, packed in skins, would afford a very efficient means of defence, if necessary, by throwing up an entrenchment with earth and pemmican bags.