Buckskin Bags and Rifle Cases

Important Notes
1.  We use drawings for buckskin clothing and some accessories to best emphasize subtle differences that would otherwise blend in with photographs.
2.    = Product patterned from original items or detailed descriptions in original journals or research materials.

About Buckskin Bags and Cases
Native Americans and other fur trade and frontier residents, like a frontiersman or mountain man, did not have cabinets or dresser drawers to store their belongings. Instead they stored their tools, buckskin clothing, personal items, and most other things in bags or cases made of buckskin or rawhide (parfleche).

Native Americans made their buckskin bags with smaller stitches, like those used on their buckskin clothing. The mountain man, frontiersman or longhunter either traded with Indians for such bags or learned from the Indians how to make their own.

Rifle cases and sewn rawhide cases (parfleche) were sewn with much larger stitches. Both running and whip stitches may be used on the same item, dependent on the area being sewn.

Many people like to decorate their personal buckskin bags and cases with quill or bead work. That's much easier to do, using traditional methods, on Indian-tanned buckskin.

For More Info ...
Read our info articles about How We Make our buckskin products or the article series about original buckskin clothing.  Also check out our info article Rifle Cases: A Brief History.

Bags:	Possible and Pipe Bags
	Tobacco Bags
Rifle Cases:	Lenape (Delaware) or Longhunter Rifle Case
	Absaroka (Crow) Rifle Case
	Blackfeet or Cree Rifle Case
	Cheyenne Rifle Case
	Lakota (Sioux) Rifle Case
	Mountain Man Rifle Case