DCHP-3

war pipe

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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among Indians, a pipe symbolic of war.

Quotations

1768-82
Previous to their going to war, the head chief calls a council, and each chief has a belt of wampum, and a war pipe: the belt to remind them of former transactions relative to the nation they intend to commence hostilities against, and the pipe to smoke at the council fire.
1949
The war pipe had been circulated, and one or two minor attacks made on the traders.