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flagpole
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a ceremonial pole used by the Indians of the eastern woodlands on which to suspend the skulls of bears and other animals they have killed to prevent their being desecrated by dogs or by careless handling.
Quotations
1925
This pole will be from twelve to fifteen feet in height, with the bark cut off and trimmed with ribbon and a kind of weather vane at the top. This is called the flag-pole (mistik-ko-khan). This pole is used for hanging bear skull bones, beaver head bones . . . killed by the hunter . . . to preserve the luck of the hunter.