boneblack

The feathers were white, but those false Indians were supposed to burn bones and stir the boneblack with their feathers to get them black.

Heinrich Meyer was an enterprising man: by 1850, the Federal Census shows he was manufacturing lard oil and boneblack.

Kruel shouted, trying to prise the boneblack fingers from the hilt of the sword, kissing the dry, cracked, skinless lips as he tried to breathe new life into his fattier, the Master of Nightmares.