DCHP-3

dead lodge

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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— Obs.

a teepee in which those dead from disease were abandoned.

See: death teepee(def. 1)

Quotations

1933
The preceding year [1869] smallpox had swept through the Blackfoot tribes and left in its wake whole camps of "dead lodges," the mortality being estimated . . . at forty or fifty percent.