medicine pole†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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among the Plains Indians, a pole set upright in the ground, decorated with feathers, and bearing numerous tribal fetishes as well as enemy scalps.

Quotations

1957

An Indian never admits anything, even if you catch him with your scalp on his medicine pole and your teeth in his fire bag.