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medicine pipe†
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a pipe or calumet, believed to have magical properties and used in certain Indian rituals and ceremonies.
See: calumet
Quotations
1898, 1910
The wife of an Indian, named "Heavy Shield," at one time on her death-bed, as she thought, vowed that she would purchase a certain Medicine Pipe in the event of her recovery, and so become a member of the society.
1946
[Caption] The medicine pipe stem belonging to the head chief of all the Crees . . . is now in the Manitoba Museum.