| 单词 | plume stick |
| 释义 | > as lemmasplume stick plume stick n. [apparently not a calque] a small stick with a feather or plume attached, used in various rituals by certain North American Indian peoples. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > implement (general) > other implements > [noun] > prayer-stick prayer stick1865 plume stick1882 paho1884 1882 N.Y. Tribune 6 Mar. 1/4 The prayers..were addressed directly to the plume-sticks, which were placed one by one in the bottom of the hole, the feathers standing upright. 1917 Sci. Monthly Apr. 365 Faces are cut on the plume sticks and on the stick for a boy a bit of turquoise blue is painted. 1974 M. Simmons Witchcraft in Southwest (1980) vii. 126 The plume-offerings deposited by the rain priests near Zuñi and carried by the butterflies attached to the plume-sticks to the great river. 1992 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 105 473/1 This point is made well in the California section of the exhibition by a Maidu plume stick. < as lemmas |
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