DCHP-3

spirit stone

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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any of a large number of stones, usually glacial erratics, on which sacred designs had been carved, formerly held in reverence by certain Plains Indians.

Quotations

1789
Their declivities were . . . sprinkled with white stones . . . called by the Indians manetoe aseniah, or spirit stones.