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among Indians, a wampum belt symbolizing a declaration of war.
Quotations
1793
Two Ibawa Indians came down express from Detroit to Niagara, carrying with them a war belt, and . . . it was the intention . . . to wage war against the British. . . .
1926
The colour of the war-belt was purple or red. . . .
1965
In December [1775] the Iroquois delegation told Phillip Schuyler that Johnson after offering them a war belt and hatchet had invited them to "feast on a Bostonian and drink his blood--an ox being roasted for this purpose and a pipe of wine given to drink."