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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a decorated club used by Pacific Coast Indians to kill fish.
Quotations
1952
Fish-clubs were made from wood and were carved in various intricate designs representing birds and animals which normally preyed on the sea-creatures.
1956
A fish club was designed first of all for killing fish when they were pulled alive into the canoe so that they would not flop about and upset things, and the decoration had to come second.