Term: calumet
Definition: a long ceremonial pipe, always smoked in peace and friendship; usually elaborately decorated with suspended feathers and a carefully carved bowl; "... is call'd in the Iroquese Language Ganondaoe, and by the other Savage Nations Poagan. " - Lahontan
[Source: See "Radisson's Fourth Voyage" and Perrot, Nicolas, Ch. 15 of "Mémoire sur les moeurs, coustumes et religion des sauvages de l'Amérique Septentrionale" at Turning Points in Wis. History (www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/)]
