a1831 J. Smith Jrnl. in M. S. Sullivan (1934) 4 They [sc. Indian lodges] do not smoke except from a sudden change of wind and then no longer than it takes a squaw to spread a smoke wing of the Lodge skin.
1846 R. B. Sage (1859) 190 Exposed to..a chill storm of rain and sleet, with only a thin lodge skin to shelter us.
1891 Mar. 776 We had already devoured..a small sack made of smoked lodge skin.