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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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or cap a headdress used by Indians at war.

Quotations

1808

Upward of 100 willows, about six feet long, with a fork about the middle, were stripped of their bark, and stuck in the ground. This, I am told, is for the purpose of hanging up their war-caps before attacking an enemy.

1923

They rode in irregular formation, with their eagle-feather war bonnets blowing in the breeze. . . .

1957

For himself he fashioned a war bonnet, and named it the "Red Pheasant."