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plural calumets
A clay tobacco pipe used by American Indians, especially as a symbol of truce or peace. quotations examples
THE CALUMET OF PEACE. He offered a cigarette to the professor and took one himself.
1922, James Joyce, Ulysses
When the chief has directed them to approach, they advance; those who have the calumets, chant and dance with much agility, now turning around each other, and now presenting themselves in front, but always with violent movements and extraordinary contortions.
2010, William Ingraham Kip, The Early Jesuit Missions in North America, page 283