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death teepee
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1
a teepee in which those dead from disease were abandoned.
See: dead lodge
Quotations
1888
A death teepee is a horrible place to enter.
2
a teepee erected in honor of a prominent person who has died.
Quotations
1952
The [Blackfoot] dead were usually deposited in trees or on scaffolds, but sometimes a special death teepee was erected on a prominent hill-top.