The traditional Ewenki house resembles an umbrella framed by twenty-five to thirty poles covered with birch bark and deerskin. |
By the end of the eighteenth century, trade cloth replaced deerskin as the basic clothing material. |
For ceremonies, the men wore a deerskin shirt decorated with paint, feathers, porcupine-quills and scalps. |
The hunter exchanged twenty deerskins for a bottle of whiskey at the trading post. |
I'd spent nearly a year making the dress from four deerskins. |
The trapper wore deerskins because they were softer than cow leather garments and rustled less than canvas. |