moccasin

Carbon-14 dating is most suited to something that lived during the last 50,000 years or something made from such organisms — the wooden shafts of arrows, the leather in a moccasin or the plant fibers used to weave fabrics or baskets.

When he stopped in Flagstaff, he visited the Museum of Northern Arizona, saw a pair of moccasins on display, and said, “Dude, those look tight!”

He listened, a little confused, trying to catch up, while he pulled off his galoshes to reveal tan suede moccasin boots.

The print of steel-rimmed hoofs showed in the soft loam as plainly as a moccasin-track in virgin snow.

I broke a branch and pawed the moccasin toward me and picked it up and went back to the horses.

It was a brightly beaded moccasin, very small, and strangely familiar even at a distance.

"Well, we came fast, but I see that we did not get here in time to help you," said Black Moccasin.

Bet he never saw an orioles' nest or found a wild pink moccasin.