See quotations.
1846. With an awl and the sinew of buffalo or other animal, or small strips of thin deer-skin, (“whang,”), he sews the vamps from end to end.—Rufus B. Sage, ‘Scenes in the Rocky Mountains,’ p. 115 (Phila.). (Italics in the original.)
1848. The sinews of the deer, which were known by the general term of “whangs.”—Monette, ‘History of the Mississippi Valley,’ ii. 4. (Italics in the original.)
