DCHP-3

tea revel

Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a social gathering held by Indians, so called because in the early days the Hudson's Bay Company contributed tea, bannock, etc., the dance itself being a kind of single-file stomp done to the beat of skin drums.

Quotations

1895
Often above the roaring of the rain we heard the beating of the tom-tom through the night, while the Indians gambled or held a tea revel.